Web Resources

Romanticism M-Z

http://www.best.com/~martyw/Romantic3.html

Visual samples and biographies of key visual artists from the Romantic Period are provided here. Additionally, links to extensive on line resources concerning visual artists an literary figures from the period are provided.

http://vos.ucsb.edu/shuttle/eng-rom.html

This site provides extensive links to resources on the origins, development, philosophy, culture and literature of the period.

http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook15.html

The sourcebook provides links to literature and philosophy of the period, including Schiller's Letters Upon The Aesthetic Education of Man.

http://www.english.ucsb.edu:591/rchrono/

Romantic Chronology provides a useful series of grids collating key cultural, social and political events for each historical phase in the period.

1		What political and economic changes influenced the Romantic period?
2		Select three visual artists and three writers from the Romantic period. Describe their background, education and social class.
3		How do the challenges of visual artists and writers compare with musicians and composers of the time.
4		Describe the doctrines and philosophies that guided Romantic period artists, writers and musicians.