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![Germaine de Stal, portrait by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1810; in the Louvre, Paris
[Giraudon/Art Resource, New York]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100313025710im_/http://www.britannica.com/static/bps-static-content/20100304-1805/images/darwin/shared/spacer_htc.gif "Germaine de Stal, portrait by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1810; in the Louvre, Paris
[Giraudon/Art Resource, New York]")
Germaine de Staël, portrait by Jean-Baptiste Isabey, 1810; in the Louvre, Paris[Credit: Giraudon/Art Resource, New York]
Sir Walter Scott, detail of an oil painting by Sir Edwin Henry Landseer, 1824; in the National …[Credit: Courtesy of The National Portrait Gallery, London]
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, oil on canvas by Richard Rothwell, first exhibited 1840; in the …[Credit: The Granger Collection, New York]
Aleksandr Pushkin, oil on canvas by Orest A. Kiprensky, 1827; in the Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.[Credit: Hulton Archive/Getty Images]
Pity, colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, …[Credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the Tate Gallery, London; photographs, G. Robertson, A.C. Cooper Ltd.]
Snow Storm—Steam-Boat off a Harbour’s Mouth, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1842; in …[Credit: Courtesy of G. Roberton, A.C. Cooper Ltd.]
The Raft of the Medusa, oil on canvas by Théodore …[Credit: Cliché Musées Nationaux, Paris]
Houses of Parliament, London, a complex of Gothic Revival buildings designed by Sir Charles Barry …[Credit: A.F. Kersting]
![Pity, colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, ?
[Credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the Tate Gallery, London; photographs, G. Robertson, A.C. Cooper Ltd.]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100313025710im_/http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/64/43664-003-8414834A.gif "Pity, colour print finished in pen and watercolour by William Blake, ?
[Credit: Courtesy of the trustees of the Tate Gallery, London; photographs, G. Robertson, A.C. Cooper Ltd.]")
In the 1760s and ’70s a number of British artists at home and in Rome, including James Barry, Henry Fuseli, John Hamilton Mortimer, and John Flaxman, began to paint subjects that were at odds with the strict decorum and classical historical and mythological subject matter of conventional figurative art. These artists favoured themes that were bizarre, pathetic, or extravagantly heroic, and they defined their images with tensely linear drawing and bold contrasts of light and shade. William Blake, the other principal early Romantic painter in England, evolved his own powerful and unique visionary images.
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If one term can be used to describe the forces that have shaped the modern world, it is Romanticism. So potent has Romanticism been since the late 18th century that one author has called it "the profoundest cultural transformation in human history since the invention of the city." Romanticism was not a movement; it was a series of movements that had dynamic impacts on art, literature, science, religion, economics, politics, and the individual’s understanding of self. Not all streams of Romanticism were the same. Some, in fact, were almost completely the opposite in their results from others. Nor was the impact the same at all times. Romanticism progressed in stages, each of which had its own emphasis.
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![Snow Storm?Steam-Boat off a Harbour?s Mouth, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1842; in ?
[Credit: Courtesy of G. Roberton, A.C. Cooper Ltd.]](https://web.archive.org/web/20100313025710im_/http://media-2.web.britannica.com/eb-media/80/59980-003-B5CAD580.gif "Snow Storm?Steam-Boat off a Harbour?s Mouth, oil on canvas by J.M.W. Turner, 1842; in ?
[Credit: Courtesy of G. Roberton, A.C. Cooper Ltd.]")
