![]() Their strident proclamation for individual creativity as the path to freedom and a reunion with nature was-or should be-humanity’s primary goal. I was somewhat amazed that the Romantic ideals were looking back to the late medieval Gothic fantasies and Renaissance Judeo-Christian themes of love and terror, re-creating an emotional resonance out of a utopian ambition for this harmony. ![]() Romanticism is the movement that was principally sustained by the belief that unbounded nature and human imagination-and not reason-are the sources of harmony, running contrary to traditional Greco-Roman antiquity. 1810, gift of California Charities Foundation ![]() Antoine-Jean Gros, Portrait of Second Lieutenant Charles Legrand, c. ![]()
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