19th Century Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Developments in Europe - the arts
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19th Century Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Developments in Europe: The Arts History Essay Pirjo Hakonen D0786-003 19th Century Educational, Cultural and Intellectual Developments in Europe: The Arts The clearest main trends in arts during the 19th century were romanticism and as a reaction to it, realism. In this essay I will go through the main trends in nineteenth century arts, especially the novel, taking my examples mainly from England. The roots of romanticism lay in the European upheavals that begun from the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars and continued after the Congress of Vienna as dissatisfaction and restlessness. The re-assessing of values that woke up along these events reached all branches of intellectual life was named Romanticism. Though Neo-classicism (which was a eighteenth and nineteenth century French art style and movement that originated as a reaction to the Baroque and wanted to renew the ideals of ancient Greek and Roman art) was philosophically opposed to...

