Romantic History: Waterloo to the British Musem
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The Pergamon Museum
The romantic period was the first time that icomes as a surprise to us that people bothered with period costumes in shakespeare or in any other kind of drama. The idea that you would provide an historical setting for an historical play is also part of, as you say, the creation of antiquarian interiors. As that kind of builds up, there's a great enthusiasm for optical illusions. And i think then, of course, that inevitably it all falls out of fashion. But so do you see r reality? In the museum is a kind of return to that idea. And and the panorama, if you, if you go to berlin. Now, the pergamon museum is
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