![]() Romantics stressed the nobility of folk art and ancient cultural practices, but also championed radical politics, unconventional behavior, and authentic spontaneity. It granted a new importance to experiences of sympathy, awe, wonder, and terror, in part by naturalizing such emotions as responses to the "beautiful" and the "sublime". The movement emphasized intense emotion as an authentic source of aesthetic experience. It had a significant and complex effect on politics: Romantic thinking influenced conservatism, liberalism, radicalism, and nationalism. It was embodied most strongly in the visual arts, music, and literature it also had a major impact on historiography, education, chess, social sciences, and the natural sciences. Romanticism was partly a reaction to the Industrial Revolution, and the prevailing ideology of the Age of Enlightenment, especially the scientific rationalization of Nature. ![]() Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of the past and nature, preferring the medieval to the classical. In most parts of Europe, it was at its peak from approximately 1800 to 1850. Romanticism (also known as the Romantic movement or Romantic era) is an artistic and intellectual movement that originated in Europe towards the end of the 18th century. ![]() Artistic, literary, musical, and intellectual movement Caspar David Friedrich, Wanderer above the Sea of Fog, 1818 Eugène Delacroix, Death of Sardanapalus, 1827, taking its Orientalist subject from a play by Lord Byron Philipp Otto Runge, The Morning, 1808 ![]()
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