... includes everything of the 'new age'. The second definition refers to 'Romantic' or 'Romanticism' as "imaginatively and emotionally inspired art"1, while the third description mentions the historical use of the term, referring to the so called 'Romantic movement' in all the arts, namely literature, art and music. Even though this gives a fairly clear insight into the general use of the word 'Romantic', definitions especially like the last one can nevertheless lead to a lot of confusion. By selecting a certain span of time and calling it the Romantic movement, artists and writers that are either clearly not Romantic ones, or do not consider themselves as such, find themselves included in this era anyway. So even if the Romantic age is always identified as being the first fifty years of the 19th century, and artists who peaked during this period had therefore been born between 1770 and 1815, this does ...

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