Romanticism was an art movement that originated in the late 18th century. It relates to the glorification of emotion in art. It was a reaction to the age of enlightenment and modernity.

Romanticism in landscape photography deals more with emphasising this emotion in the sublime and drawing out and exaggerating natural elements.

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Below is an example of romanticism in one of Thomas Doughty’s paintings from around 1830. It portrays the landscape in a way the human eye couldn’t see it. Thomas exaggerates the colours and the textures of the landscape.