Imagine if you will, a world covered in soot and sin, completely removed from the beauty of nature and the righteous grace of religion. This is how the sad souls of the Romantic artists viewed the world in the late eighteenth and nineteenth century. The Romanticism Movement was a widespread revolution of emotion and aesthetics that changed how the world viewed art, music and most importantly literature. It rejected the religion-crushing enlightenment, as well as the heartless, mechanical ways of the Industrial Revolution. In art, the Romantic Revolution looked back toward the works of the Renaissance, the pinnacle of religious artistic works. The music developed in this time period is what we mainly refer to as Classical today, the composers of the time infused their music with emotion and passion. This period was also a glorious point in the history of literature, producing more poets and novelists of great importance than any other period in history. As Byron states: "The good old times'- all times when old are good- are gone." Countless art historians state that Romanticism is indefinable, mainly because the movement was more about personal, emotional expression than one type of style, like Impressionism or Expressionism. The style was akin to that of the Renaissance and Baroque periods, very profound, self contained and wholly religious for art at the time was looked at to bridge the gap left by the downgrading value of the church. Romantic art was a change from the neoclassical works of the previous period, the painter as an individual was glorified and all reason and logic were set aside to make way for whimsical, supernatural, irrational subjects of the major of romantic paintings. Art, of all of the romantic mediums, was raised up away from the scum and dregs of society, because of its sacred and one of a kind subject matter. To talk about the Romantic style, or rather styles, of art, you must first address the art of the time period before this revolution of emotion. Neoclassicism was an art style used in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century based to the imitation of surviving classical models and types, such as that of the ancient Greek and Roman cultures. Romanticism expands on the principles of neoclassicism, but with a much larger focus on the intense emotions and individuality of t