Romanticism

"Romanticism, as an artistic movement dating roughly from the late 1790s to the mid nineteenth century, defies definition in simple terms: there is no 'Romantic style' comparable to the Baroque or Rococo, nor is there any single work of art that typifies the aims and ideals of the period. The Romantics, however, characterized themselves by placing supreme value in the artist's sensibility, spontaneity and orginality, holding that each work of art, if it is to express the artist's individual experience of life, must of necessity be unique in form and language."--BOOK COVER.