15 Facts About Romanticist

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Romanticist was deeply interested in Portuguese folkloric verse, which resulted in the publication of Romanceiro, that recollect a great number of ancient popular ballads, known as "romances" or "rimances", in redondilha maior verse form, that contained stories of chivalry, life of saints, crusades, courtly love, etc.

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Romanticist too was forced to exile to Great Britain and France because of his liberal ideals.

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3.

Romanticist sought inspiration in medieval Portuguese poems and chronicles as in the Bible.

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4.

Romanticist's output is vast and covers many different genres, such as historical essays, poetry, novels, opuscules and theatre, where he brings back a whole world of Portuguese legends, tradition and history, especially in Eurico, o Presbitero and Lendas e Narrativas .

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Romanticist's work was influenced by Chateaubriand, Schiller, Klopstock, Walter Scott and the Old Testament Psalms.

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6.

Romanticist became an unquestionable master for successive Ultra-Romantic generations, whose influence would not be challenged until the famous Coimbra Question.

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7.

Romanticist created polemics by translating Goethe's Faust without knowing German, but using French versions of the play.

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8.

Romanticist's writings were influenced by his hatred for the Argentine dictator Juan Manuel de Rosas, and filled with themes of blood and terror, using the metaphor of a slaughterhouse to portray the violence of Rosas' dictatorship.

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Romanticist's projects were carried out by the architect Eugene Viollet-le-Duc.

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10.

Romanticist's Liberty Leading the People remains, with the Medusa, one of the best-known works of French Romantic painting.

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11.

Romanticist shared with many of the Romantic painters a more free handling of paint, emphasized in the new prominence of the brushstroke and impasto, which tended to be repressed in neoclassicism under a self-effacing finish.

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Romanticist justified his view on the basis of these composers' depth of evocative expression and their marked individuality.

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13.

Romanticist believed that knowledge was only attainable by those who truly appreciated and respected nature.

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14.

Romanticist'story writing was very strongly, and many would say harmfully, influenced by Romanticism.

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Romanticist regarded the oral literature of the peasants as an integral part of Serbian culture, compiling it to use in his collections of folk songs, tales and proverbs, as well as the first dictionary of vernacular Serbian.

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