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1245
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey was redone in the Gothic style. Blake spent years in the Abbey as an engraving apprentice and said gothicism impacted his art -
1490
Vitruvian Man
Leonardo da Vinci's work of the proportions of an idealized man. -
1501
David
Michelangelo finished the David sculpture. Renaissance art and the idealized body had a large impact on Blake's art -
Paradise Lost
Book by Milton, heavily inspired Blake because of its religious themes -
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The Enlightenment
Era of rationality, logic, science and reason over religion. Long 18th century. -
Heaven and Hell
Emanuel Swedenborg book, Blake's later collection "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell" responded to this with his own thoughts on the afterlife -
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Industrial Revolution
Hand crafted goods became machine oriented, people left the country for factory work in tight apartments. Some Romantics saw it as a loss of humanization. -
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American Revolution
Successful revolution against the British to establish a new country based in liberty, equality and freedom. Blake supported the revolution, as with many romantics because of its support of the individual -
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French Revolution
Revolution against the French monarchy and Ancien Regime. Founded in beliefs of liberty and freedom, popular among Romantics. Romantics began to like it less as violence poured down -
Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis David iconic neoclassical painting. About French Revolution. Romanticism overlapped with neoclassicism and responded to it -
The Ancient of Days
Blake frontispiece, my paper topic! -
Fishermen at Sea
JMW Turner painting, prominent romantic artist. His first painting in the Royal Academy -
Lyrical Ballads
The official mark of the beginning of English Romanticism. Romantic poem collection by Wordsworth & Coleridge -
Wanderer Above the Sea Fog
Caspar David Friedrich painting, iconic romantic artwork, displays the experience of the sublime