Episode 3: Romanticism
On this most romantic of days, Sarah talks with Kristin about Romantic art and how it relates to Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell. Then Sarah and Sam read the latest of the Agony Uncle column!
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The Agony Uncle column is written by @mrsbillycranston
Mentioned in the podcast, in order:
- Charles Baudelaire
- Waterhouse & Millais, Pre-Raphaelite painters
- Jacques Louis David - Oath of the Horatii
- John Constable, JMW Turner, William Blake
- Diderot
- further reading on the sublime would be Burke’s Philosophical Enquiry and also ‘The Sublime Today: Contemporary Readings in the Aesthetic’ which has a chapter on the twin towers
- Theodore Jericault quote about Raft of the Medusa
- Kristin’s blog: mrsbeefheart.blogspot.com
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
- artists and their works under the cut:
William Blake - Europe a Prophecy
JMW Turner - Steamer in a Snowstorm
John Constable, Haywain, 1821
Caspar David Friedrich - WANDERER ABOVE A SEA OF FOG
Goya - The Giant
Jerricault - Raft of the Medusa
- The Landscape of History: How Historians Map the Past by John Lewis Gaddis
Caspar David Friedrich painting that looks like Lost Hope!: