Romanticism', though a debated term, is broadly understood as a cultural movement which gripped the European imagination in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Embodying a poetics of ...

Culture.pl is here to explain what makes Poland’s version of romanticism unique. The beginning of the Romantic period in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is thought to be 1822, the year when ...

The Romantic period started around 1830 and ended around 1900, as compositions became increasingly expressive and inventive. Expansive symphonies, virtuosic piano music, dramatic operas, and ...

In the slow movement of Sergei Rachmaninov’s Piano Concerto No. 2, the opening flute melody contains chromatic notes as well as accompanying chords. These dissonances usually resolve to ...

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Francesco Hayez was a notable Italian painter and the forerunner of the Milanese Romanticism movement. Born on February 10, 1791 in Venice, Italy, Hayez grew up surrounded by art, as his family ...

Centred on the Romantic period in the English-speaking world, but ranging across the whole print era, it reaches startling conclusions about the forces that determined how ideas were carried, through ...