Romanticism

 Art movement concerned with capturing feelings. Romantic painting had to be beautiful yet had to encompass something larger in grandeur. Aesthetics was primarily the goal. 

David - Napoleon crosses the alps

The raft of the medusa

By Théodore Géricault, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17456087

 

By Francisco Goya - National Gallery, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=12084920