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25 Febbraio 2008
Romanticism in art, as well as in music and literature, was opposed to everything that Neoclassicism represented . The Romantics reasserted the autonomy of the individual, the primacy of imagination, of unrestrained intuition, emotion and feeling. Landscape painting was the most characteristich achievement of English Romantic art and it was synonymous of British freedom. A conscious appreciation of the real countryside went hand in hand with an increasing demand for paintings and engravings of it.
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