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The Marais, Paris
Jean-Jacques Rousseau publishes “Émile or on education”. Rousseau criticizes the oppresive world of adults and praises the natural goodness, spontaneity and wisdom of children. -
Brook Street, London
Thomas Chatterton kills himself because no one wants to publish his poetry and because his family is trying to put pressure on him to become a lawyer -
Leipzig, Germany
Goethe publishes an essencial romantic story about the young Werther. It tells the story about Wrther and a married young woman, Charlotte. At the end, Werther kills himself because he can't be with her. Instead of think he is a lunatic, people love him because of passionate and impractical attitude. -
Madrid, Spain
Francisco Goya painted “the sleeper reason brings out monsters”, which capture the irrational romantic thought that being romantic is to have sympathy for madness and to have a vengeful attitude towards rationality, science and logic. -
The Lake District, England,
William Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy move into Dove Cottage, on the edge of the Lake District. Here they sspend about nine years, where Wordsworth wrote about the natural world. One of the most meaningful characteristics about Wordsworth and Romanitcisms is the hate for everything mechanical and industrial. -
Niagara, United States
Thomas Cole painted the mighty Niagara Falls with a couple of native americans and the foreground. Cole showed nature at its most impressive facet. Men looks insinificant by comparison. This is a typical romantic attitude too: to find relief from the pressures of cities in nature. -
Westminster, London
After some officials destroyed the British Parliament with fire, Augustus Pugin designed a new but old looking building. It was medieval in fact. When Pugin defended his new building's style he told it takes him back to his country's pre-industrial past; before it grew obsessed, with money or technology. Feeling identified in the world of knights and castles is also a bid romantic characteristic. -
Saint-Germain, Paris
Charles Baudelaire wriote a prose poem about a character he calls “flâneur”. A flâneur is someone who spends his time observing busy street life of the modern city and who has no particular job. Baudelaire, admired the flanneur’s lack of practicality. It doesn't matter that he doesn't have a job. for Baudelaire he is a prince, unlike the boring slaves going to the new offices of capitalism. -
Le Havre
Paul Gauguin sailed to Tahiti trying to escape everything that is artificial and conventional. He lived in the Pacific South Seas drawing young native women looking relaxed and natural. He thinks that civilization is what has made us sick.
