Romanticism (jan 1, 1780 – jan 1, 1850)
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The triumph of imagination and individualityRomanticism was an artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century, and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 to 1860. It was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, the aristocratic social and political norms of the Age of Enlightenment, and the scientific rationalization of nature - all components of modernity. It had a significant and complex effect on politics, with romantic thinkers influencing liberalism, radicalism, conservatism, and nationalism.
The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience, placing new emphasis on such emotions as fear, horror and terror, and awe - especially that experienced in confronting the new aesthetic categories of the sublime and beauty of nature.
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jan 1, 1780
jan 1, 1850
~ 70 years