Romanticism and Realism

Romantic Author: William Blake (1757-1827)

• English poet, painter, and printmaker
• Author of: 
• Songs of Innocence
• The Book of Thel
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell and Jerusalem

Realism Author: Honoré de Balzac (1799-1850)

• wrote The Unknown Masterpiece
• wrote "La comédie humaineis"
• regarded as the founder of Realism in Europe
• suffered various health problems
• married to his lifelong love Ewelina Hańska

Scientist: Auguste Comte (1789–1857)

• one of the founders of sociology 
• believed that laws control society
• believed in a scientific reason for social order

Scientist: John Dalton (1766-1844)

• published first major study on color blindness
• discovered atoms
• English
• published Dalton's Law of Partial Pressures

Romantic Artist: Théodore Gericault (1791–1824)

• French
• famous work: Boxers, The Raft of the Medusa
• displayed his skill in drawing muscular figures
• Eugène Delacroix, posed for one of his paintings
• famous work: Evening: Landscape with an Aqueduct

Realism Artist: Édouard Manet (1832-1883)

• French painter
• Works: Boating, The Boy with a Sword
• Works cont.: Young Lady in 1866, A Matador
•  copied works at the Musée du Louvre

Classical Musician: Domenico Cimarosa (1749 - 1801)

• wrote the opera:  Il matrimonio segreto
• began his career with opera buffa, Le stravaganze del conte
• wrote operas for the various theatres of Italy
• wrote both comic and serious operas

Romantic Artist: Robert Schumann (1810 - 1856)

• German composer
• influential music critic
• one of the greatest composers of the Romantic era
• suffered from a lifelong mental disorder
• work: Kinderszenen

Industrial Machine: Battery Machine

• created by Alessandro Volta in the 1800s
• Volta is credited as the 1st electrochemical cell
• consists of two electrodes: zinc and copper
• Batteries provided the main source of electricity

Industrial Machine: Sewing Machine

• made the mass production of clothing possible
• claimed to be made by many different people
• Thomas Saint (1790) Charles Fredrick Wiesenthal (1755):
• Saint is English, Wiesenthal is German

Importance of Coal and Steam

• Steam created many new transportation methods
• steam improved productivity and technology
• steam allowed the creation of smaller/better engines
• coal was used to acquire fuel
• coal was used as source for energy/fuel for steam products

Work Cited (1)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Blake
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realism_(arts)
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honor%C3%A9_de_Balzac
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Dalton
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%89douard_Manet

Work Cited (2)

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Koch
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguste_Comte
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/amcm/hd_amcm.htm
• http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/coal_mines_industrial_revolution.htm
• http://www.classissima.com/en/people/classical_era_composers/

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• http://powpak.allencountyesc.org/powpak/cgi-bin/lp_display_page.pl?id=cook_...
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steam_power_during_the_Industrial_Revolution
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th%C3%A9odore_G%C3%A9ricault
• http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/sewmachine.htm

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• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/22.63.28
• http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/mane/hd_mane.htm
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alessandro_Volta
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domenico_Cimarosa
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Schumann