Romanticism is an intellectual orientation that characterised several works of literature, painting, music, design, and historiography in Western culture over a amount from the late 18th to the mid-19th century. Romanticism are often seen as a rejection of the precepts of order, calm, harmony, balance, and rationality that typified liberal arts normally and late 18th-century arts specifically. Romanticism stresses the individual, the subjective, the irrational, the ingenious, the non-public, the spontaneous, the emotional, the visionary, and therefore the transcendental.