Romantic With Ha Capital R

In the previous course, western civilization, we talked about gothic cathedrals. Now i will refresh your memory with a slide of one of them for those if you didn't take that course. One of the major movements that was part of romanticism in terms of architecture was the gothic revival. And this is a reaction against neo classicism. Neo classicism viewed theGothic style as backward and barbaric. We want to replace it with the classical style of ancient greece and rome. The romantics thought these are beautiful. They speak to the human spirit. This is something that would be very appealing to the romantic mind. And they think its a tra