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Romanticism is a complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength during the Industrial Revolution. It was partly a revolt against aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment and a reaction against the scientific rationalization of nature, and was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature. The movement stressed strong emotion as a source of... full article at wikipedia

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Liberty Leading the People	Eugène Delacroix
Episode of the Belgian Revolution of 1830	Egide Charles Gustave Wappers
The Lady of Shalott	John William Waterhouse
The Forging of the Sampo	Akseli Gallen-Kallela
Death of Sardanapalus	Eugène Delacroix
The Lion Hunt	Eugène Delacroix
The Second of May 1808	Francisco Goya
The Third of May 1808	Francisco Goya
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog	Caspar David Friedrich
Moonrise Over the Sea	Caspar David Friedrich
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