Romantic artists prefer diagonal lines, circles, bends and swirls. Also darker colors and

foggy or stormy skies (and oceans).

They use less-distinct, often smudged or blurred outlines for the figures.

They use more decoration and often create busier (more complex) works.

Hellenistic Art (c. 350 - 30 BCE) (Romantic)

Characteristics: Drama, death, fantasy

Gothic Art - 1150 - 1400

Characteristics: Emotional, Magical, Mysterious, Fantastical

Simone Martini (c. 1285)

Baroque Art - c. 1600

After the classicism of the Renaissance which featured values such as high morals, the intellect over the passions, courage, calmness, optimism, prudence and civic mindedness,

Baroque art's romanticism includes (motion) action, drama, passion, anguish, foreboding, turbulence, chaos, tragic charter flaws, the mysterious and the magical. Greek mythology is a recurrent theme.

Baroque Art