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The Romanticism period started around the late 18th century in Europe alongside Neoclassicism, which had a stark contrast to Romanticism. The characteristics of a Romanticism painting would have multiple subjects (sometimes religious), sensuous themes, nature at its purist form, emotionally raw with paint that is striking and potent. Neoclassicism’s characteristics were more on the realistic side of reality, it was neat and rational, and the colors were typical flat and dull. In the school of Munich head master was Karl von Piloty. He had a technique called fresco which was used for mural paintings that fresh wet lime plaster was placed. During this period a lot of the art sported an emotional strain but was shown in a theatrical lens. The most prominent themes of the school of Munich were urban life, rural life, still life, and landscaping to name a few. In this time there were some female painters such as Eleni Boukoura-Altamura, Sophia Laskaridou, Eleni Stamatopoulou-Komitopoulou, and Thalia Flora-Karavia to name a few. Eleni B. was born in 1821 and had shown an artistic talent from a very early age. Her father wanted her to continue to work on her art but since she was a woman she wasn’t allowed in the classes. Eleni had to get creative and she dressed as a man to go to the classes. After her daughter died, she had a mental breakdown and burned most of her paintings. Sophia Laskaridou had gained the eyes of King George I and enrolled her in the School of Fine Arts, where she was a student to Nikephoros Lytras and George Iakovidis. Her art was mostly of landscapes that capture a romantic theme to them. Eleni Stamatopoulou-Komitopoulou, unfortunately there is not a lot about her but what is known is that her art was supposedly quite intense. Thalia Flora-Karavia who was rejected by the School of Fine Arts because of her sex so, she went to Munich where she studied alongside Nikolaos Gyzus and George Iakovidis. Her paintings were that of war scenes using coal, chalk and pastels.

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