ABSTRACT
The Romantic period was notable for vigorous and innovative activity across the full range of the visual arts, just as it was in literature. The genre of landscape art, which came into its own in the romantic period, shadowed the development of travel and tourism in its endeavour to find pictorial strategies for accommodating the new landscape aesthetics. This chapter discusses the areas of artistic production landscape gardening, architecture, painting, and print making. The use of architecture to express rising national self-consciousness and cultural identity was evident elsewhere in Europe too. Prints, which are essentially, reproducible designs or images, with or without accompanying text, were used for a wide range of purposes, from the relatively high-cultural replication of paintings. Nature became a more important component of both history paintings and portraits, and landscape painting itself acquired a new confidence and ambition as it discovered new geographical territories, new themes and techniques, and new potential in a formerly subordinate medium, watercolour.
