Fleury-Richard's Valentine of Milan weeping for the death of her husband, shown in the Paris Salon of 1802, marked the arrival of the style, which lasted until the mid-century, before being subsumed into the increasingly academic history painting of artists like Paul Delaroche.[109]. Friedrich was a German Romantic landscape painter, and considered by many academics to be the finest German painter of his time. Zdzisław Kępiński, however, focuses his interpretation on Slavic pagan and occult elements found in the drama. Informed by the Baroque style and the Classicists, Goya's art was part of the Romanticism movement, but also contained provocative elements such as social critiques, nudes, war, and allegories of death. Notable examples include the completion of Cologne Cathedral in Germany, by Karl Friedrich Schinkel. The concept of absolute originality is a contemporary one, born with Romanticism; classical art was in vast measure serial, and the "modern" avant-garde (at the beginning of this century) challenged the Romantic idea of "creation from nothingness", with its techniques of collage, mustachios on the Mona Lisa, art about art, and so on. [21], The founders of Romanticism, critics August Wilhelm Schlegel and Friedrich Schlegel, began to speak of romantische Poesie ("romantic poetry") in the 1790s, contrasting it with "classic" but in terms of spirit rather than merely dating. [20] Most such novels took the form of "chivalric romance", tales of adventure, devotion and honour. "Romanticism Movement Overview and Analysis". Self-understanding was an important aspect of Romanticism. Byron's plays, along with dramatizations of his poems and Scott's novels, were much more popular on the Continent, and especially in France, and through these versions several were turned into operas, many still performed today. Much art has been and is repetitive. Romanticism, attitude that characterized works of literature, painting, music, architecture, criticism, and historiography in the West from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. French Romanticism. In contrast, Lord Byron and Walter Scott achieved enormous fame and influence throughout Europe with works exploiting the violence and drama of their exotic and historical settings; Goethe called Byron "undoubtedly the greatest genius of our century". This expression of emotion was the focus of all the arts of the self-described "Romantic" movement. 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