AP Euro Topic: 7.8 (Romanticism Only)

Romanticism

a movement in the arts and literature that originated in the late 18th century, emphasizing inspiration, subjectivity, and the primacy of the individual.

3 multiple choice options

Caspar David Friedrich

German Romantic Painter known for his works that express the sublimity of nature Wanderer above the Sea of Fog.

3 multiple choice options

John Constable

English landscape painter. Used natural color stippled with white to demonstrate shifting atmosphere and changing seasons. (The Hay Wain)

3 multiple choice options

J.M.W. Turner

An English romantic painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, known especially for his dramatic, lavishly colored landscapes and seascapes. (Rain Steam and Speed)

3 multiple choice options

Francisco Goya

A Spanish painter of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Among his works is a series of paintings and etchings that powerfully depict the horrors of war. (The Third of May)

3 multiple choice options

Eugene Delacroix

French romantic painter, master of dramatic colorful scenes that stirred the emotions. remote and exotic subjects. (Liberty Leading the People)

3 multiple choice options

Ludwig van Beethoven

romantic composer who was the first to take full advantage of the broad range of instruments in the modern orchestra (5th Symphony, Egmont Overture)

3 multiple choice options

Frederic Chopin

A nineteenth-century Polish romantic composer. He is known for his expressive piano pieces (Nocturne)

3 multiple choice options

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Russian Romantic composer. (Nutcracker and 1812 Overture.)

3 multiple choice options

Richard Wagner

German composer of operas and inventor of the music drama in which drama and spectacle and music are fused (Ride of the Valkyries)

3 multiple choice options

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

(1749-1832) A German Romantic author fuel the Sturm und Drang movement (Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther)

3 multiple choice options

William Wordsworth

English romantic poet who wrote about the natural world.

3 multiple choice options

Lord Byron

English Romantic poet who embodied the idea of the "Romantic Hero" died on way to fight in the war for Greek independence

3 multiple choice options

Percy Bysshe Shelley

English Romantic poet; Ode to the West Wind, To a Sky-Lark, Ozymandias

3 multiple choice options

John Keats

English Romantic poet who wrote "Ode to a Nightingale"

3 multiple choice options

Mary Shelley

Romantic horror novelist. Author of Frankenstein.

3 multiple choice options

Victor Hugo

French romantic novelist who wrote The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables.

3 multiple choice options