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Romanticism
Was an artistic musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe at the end of the 18th century. -
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement. -
Alexandre Dumas
Alexandre Dumas also known as Alexandre Dumas, père, was a French writer. -
José de Espronceda
José de Espronceda was a Romantic Spanish poet. -
The morning
Philipp Otto Runge was a Romantic German painter andhe is considered among the best German Romantic painters. -
Chateaubriand
Anne-Louis Girodet was a French painter and pupil of Jacques-Louis David, who was part of the beginning of the Romantic movement by adding elements of eroticism through his paintings. -
Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. -
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog
Caspar David Friedrich was a 19th-century German Romantic landscape painter, generally considered the most important German artist of his generation. -
Gustave Flaubert
Gustave Flaubert was an influential French novelist who was perhaps the leading exponent of literary realism in his country. -
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt
Edmond Louis Antoine Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, literary critic, art critic, book publisher and the founder of the Académie Goncourt. -
Leo Tolstoy
Count Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy was a Russian writer who is regarded as one of the greatest authors of all time. -
les de Goncourt
les de Goncourt born Jules Alfred Huot de Goncourt, was a French writer, who published books together with his brother Edmond. -
Machado de Assis
Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis was a Brazilian novelist, poet, playwright and short story writer. -
Alphonse Daudet
Alphonse Daudet was a French novelist. -
The Death of Sardanapalus
Ferdinand Victor Eugène Delacroix was a French Romantic artist. -
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Realism
Realism was an artistic movement that began in France in the 1850s, after the 1848 Revolution. -
La rencontre, ou "Bonjour Monsieur Courbet"
A Realist painting by Gustave Courbet -
Cimabue's Celebrated Madonna
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Iron and Coal
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The Wave (La Vague)
Painted by Gustave Coubert -
Impression, Sunrise
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A Cotton Office in New Orleans
Is an 1873 oil painting by Edgar Degas. -
La Loge
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Impresionism
Impressionism is a 19th-century art movement characterized by relatively small, thin, yet visible brush strokes, open composition -
Franz Kafka
Franz Kafka was a German-language writer of novels and short stories who is widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. -
The Card Players
is a series of oil paintings by the French Post-Impressionist artist Paul Cézanne.
