A journey through the history of art and music Since the mid-seventeenth century, every period has been marked by the idea - which was new at the time - that feeling was the basis of human nature. The interior journey, one of the notions developed alongside the concept of feeling, was thought to lead to the discovery of inherent good. With Mozart, Rousseau, and Goethe, a new aesthetic world was born, one where artists, and in particular musicians, would play a dominant part by making it possible for men to attain the sublime, a dimension transcending representational art. The architects of the Romantic Movement were the philosophers, musicians, poets and painters who developed these ideas and propelled them to their peak in the early 19th century.
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