Where did romanticism begin, and why?
First of all, let me say that this subject is an incredibly popular on the Internet. This URL will guide you to lots other web sites. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4SUNA_enUS219US220&defl=en&q=define:Romanticism&sa=X&oi=glossary_definition&ct=title The previous period of Neoclassicism emphasized adherence to standards. Wikipedia describes it as: “What any “neo”-classicism depends on most fundamentally is a consensus about a body of work that has achieved canonic status (illustration, below). These are the “classics.” Ideally— and neoclassicism is essentially an art of an ideal— an artist, well-schooled and comfortably familiar with the canon, does not repeat it in lifeless reproductions, but synthesizes the tradition anew in each
