الرومانسيه - Romanticism Movement Overview

This idea of an American identity in the art world is reflected in 's poem To Cole, the Painter, Departing for Europe, where Bryant encourages Cole to remember the powerful scenes that can only be found in America.

Heavily influenced by the Flemish master Peter Paul Rubens and the Baroque paintings of Velasquez, Géricault became a pioneer in the Romantic period of French painting - as highlighted in his master work: Raft of the Medusa.

They sometimes depicted ancient ruins of the old world, such as in Fredric Edwin Church's piece Sunrise in Syria.

The poetry of —nearly unread in her own time—and 's novel can be taken as epitomes of American Romantic literature.