After the peaceful and productive Baroque period came the Rococo, then the period of Romanticism and Realism. The art of this era was very similar to the Rococo period, except for one element; the turmoil of the French Revolution. The tension of this historical tragedy emerges in many paintings, even if they were made twenty or thirty years after the end of the Revolution. Paintings such as Goya's The Third of May (27-11) and Delacroix's Liberty Leading the People describe the terrible effects of misguided ideas. The rest of the world followed the humanistic thoughts introduced in some arts; the Revolution was influential, but not good in a good way. When I came to this question, it made me laugh a little. David was a friend of Robespierre, the instigator of the French Revolution. Napoleon, on the other hand, wanted to kill as many Frenchmen as possible. When the Revolution ended, David, who had been associated with Robespierre. He was sentenced to prison. What the textbook doesn't say, however, is that David only gained freedom because he was a cowardly liar who claimed he was never in cahoots with Robespierre! Ultimately, Napoleon was impressed by David's work, probably because his personality was so similar to his own. Napoleon set boundaries for other people, only to then break them himself; something David often did. (Kleiner, 757) Napoleon admired David's style also because it imitated the neoclassical era, which Napoleon identified with the power of the Romans, a trait to which he aspired. In France, David's art promoted Napoleon by making him seem like a hero (Napoleon crosses St. Bernard 27-1a). I liked how (during this time) there were the two main movements, and the others worked... middle of paper......romantic era dealt with dark themes, bad dreams, nightmares and horrible scenes. (27-8, 10, 12) Interestingly, the Romanticism movement was not what the normal person would consider “romantic.” Delacroix's Death of Sarandapalus (27-15) was inspired by one of Lord Byron's poems. What the textbook didn't mention was that many of Byron's poems reflected his wild life, i.e. Byron chose scandalous moments throughout history to write about. The Romantic Era was a time when art depicted turmoil and imagery, not any of the normal "Romantic" attributes. Works Cited Kleiner, Fred S. and Helen Gardner. Gardner's Art Through the Ages: A Global History. Boston, MA: Thomson/Wadsworth, 2009. Print. Hindley, Meredith. “Thomas Cole, View from Mount Holyoke, 1836.” Imagining America. Washington, DC: National Endowment for the Humanities, 2008. 24-25. Press.