Reference no: EM132880368

Question 1: Last week we saw three revolutions succeed and yet, the advances were rolled back in many ways and places. Napoleon, while a son of the French Revolution, became a dictator. Using either Spain or Haiti as an example, explain why and how the ideas of the French Revolution did not extend to those countries. Did the American and Haitian Revolutions succeed and the French Revolution fail?

Question 2: Your book does a good job of explaining the "Romantic Imagination". What is the "Romantic Imagination"? Use a Romantic painter as an example and compare how that painter fitss the definition of "Romantic" as compared to an example of a Romantic poet of your choice.
Your book says," In great symphonies like the Eroica and the Fifth, he (Beethoven) defined the Romantic style in music." How do you define "the Romantic Style of music"? How is it different from Classical music and how does Beethoven's music compare with later Romantic composers?

Question 3: How did the Industrial Revolution change cities? What impact did it have on the life of people who already lived in a city that added factories? What impact did the Industrial Revolution have on the life of those who moved to the cities to work in these factories? How did artists react to the changes?

Question 4: Romantic painting could be very different depending on where the art was being done. Yet, painters during this time shared a passion for the natural world, for drama, for ancient things. Compare the work of John Constable and J.M.W. Turner with the French realists Delacroix and Gericault. How are the similar? Are the French realists still Romantics?