166 Chapter 10 Overview

What You’ll Learn To Do: Examine and identify Romantic art.

In Chapter 10 we will examine Romantic art. We will look at how artists like Delacroix contributed to the development of Western art. It is imperative to understand Romantic art in order to see how it impacted later artistic developments.

Learning Activities

The learning activities for this module include:

• Review: Key Learning Items

Romanticism

• Read: Introduction to Romanticism (includes a video: 8:46)

France

Delacroix

• Read: Liberty Leading the People (includes a video: 5:23)
• Watch: Scene of the Massacre at Chios (3:14)
• Read: Death of Sardanapalus (includes a video: 3:42)
• Read: Understanding Delacroix’s Painterly Techniques

Gros

• Read: Napoleon Bonaparte Visiting the Plague-Stricken in Jaffa (includes a video: 3:37)

Gericault

• Watch: Raft of the Medusa (6:33)
• Read: Portraits of the Insane

Ingres

• Read: Apotheosis of Homer
• Read: Madame Riviere
• Read: Grand Odalisque (includes a video: 4:09)
• Watch: Princesse de Broglie (3:22)

Goya

• Read: Third of May, 1808
• Read: Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
• Watch: Saturn Devouring One of His Sons (3:24)

England

• Read: Constable, The Haywain (includes a video: 4:28)
• Watch: Turner, Slave Ship (4:01)

United States

Cole

• Read: Hudson River School
• Read: The Oxbow (includes a video: 5:31)

Erastus Salisbury Field

• Watch: Portrait of a Young Woman (3:58)

Extra Review

• Review: External Resources

Assignment

• Submit: Module 10 Quiz (5 points)