Evaluate whether Romanticism stayed connected to the Enlightenment or challenged it.
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Romanticism largely challenged the Enlightenment by valuing emotion, intuition and nature over pure reason and warning about the dangers of unchecked science, but it kept important connections, including a fascination with science and the Enlightenment's concern for individual freedom.
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Palagi's 1827 painting celebrates Newton, the Enlightenment's great scientific hero, so the choice of subject by a Romantic artist shows that some Romantics admired Enlightenment science even while depicting it with emotion and drama.
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Show the overlap and tension within single figures (Goethe as both scientist and poet), or connect Romanticism to the nationalism and liberal revolutions of 1830 and 1848.
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