Romanticism, first defined as an aesthetic in literary criticism around 1800, gained momentum as an artistic movement in France and Britain in the early decades of the nineteenth century and flourished until mid-century. With its emphasis on the imagination and emotion, Romanticism emerged as a response to the disillusionment with the Enlightenment values of reason more . . .
Galitz, Kathryn Calley. “Romanticism.” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 2000–. http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/roma/hd_roma.htm (October 2004)
The Oxford Companion to Western ArtGreat article on Romanticism in the visual arts/ William Vaughan
Vaughan, William. "Romanticism in the visual arts." The Oxford Companion to Western Art. : Oxford University Press, 2001. Oxford Reference. 2003. Date Accessed 4 Aug. 2017 <http://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/acref/9780198662037.001.0001/acref-9780198662037-e-2263>.
