romantic movement

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romantic movement Meaning of "romantic movement"

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Definition(s):

  • (n) a movement in literature and art during the late 18th and early 19th centuries that celebrated nature rather than civilization

Usage(s):

  1. There are signs that the romantic movement is nearing the end of its course.
  2. In treating landscape as a paradigm of human fate and mood, Friedrich became one of the few major painters in the German romantic movement.
  3. So Orsay's program must begin after the peak of the romantic movement.
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