A Romantic View -  Katlijne Van der Stichelen; Benno Tempel; Jan de Meere

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KORTE INHOUD

In summer 2011, M - Museum Leuven will present the travelling exhibition Through the Romanticist's Eyes, with an accompanying catalogue published by Mercatorfonds. More than 70 paintings offer a unique vision of 19th-century Belgian and Dutch Romantic painting. In the fall of 2010, this exhibition was mounted at the State Hermitage Museum in Saint Petersburg.

The early nineteenth century was a momentous time: the French Revolution had swept away the secular certainties of the Ancien Régime , and the Napoleonic wars shook all of Europe to its foundations. New social strata - the bourgeoisie and the working class - began to emerge. Liberalism and the Industrial Revolution took centre stage. In short, society was evolving at a breakneck pace. These changes were particularly spectacular in the artistic world. In reaction to the rationality of the Enlightenment, Romanticism stressed the importance of emotion, passion and mysticism. Although the Romantic movement arose everywhere across Europe, today its pictorial ...
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2011 Uitgever: Mercatorfonds 144 paginas Taal: Engels Grootte:  300x240 ISBN-10: 9061533511 ISBN-13: 9789061533511