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• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Kultur Video
• DVD Release Date: January 31, 2006
• Run Time: 50 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• ASIN: B000CQQIXA
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #183,752 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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As the strict classical disciplines of the eighteenth century began to fade, two very different movements came to prominence, from Constable and Turner influenced by nature, to the stirring works of Goya and Géricault. This episode explores the genius of works such as The Third of May and The Haywain. Romanticism has had a profound impact on the history of western art, and its effects are analyzed by leading art historians who add to our understanding of one of the most popular periods in art.

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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars It Came Before Impressionism., October 13, 2008

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Jeffery Mingo (Homewood, IL USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Landmarks of Western Art: Romanticism - A Journey of Art History Across The Ages (DVD)

Because I've seen entire works on Delacroix, Friedrich, Constable, and other painters separately, it was not as impressive seeing this survey on the movement. Still, this work is good for those that want the basics. I can imagine this being shown in many an art or history class in high schools.
A lot of these works on artists are very British, being made there and having their experts interviewed. The host narrator seemed to be American, however, unless he was faking an American accent. The documentary shows a virtual, computer-generated art museum with Romantic works. This was impressive in that some art docs can be dull and lifeless.
There's a part of me that wishes this work would have tied the art more to Romantic literature, but maybe that would have been too broad a scope. I was surprised that these artists often painted works to memorialize tragedies of that time period. The work says either David or Delacroix painted something after reading Byron. I'm used to hearing of Brits being inspired by those on the European continent, but I hear about the reverse much less often. This work covered artists from Germany and Spain, not just France and Britain.
In the work, often images are not fully painted out. You have to put energy into figuring out what the brush strokes represent. In this way it reminded me much of Impressionism, but that thought is never brought up by the narrator or the experts.