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Landscape Paintings and Romanticism
Landscape painting has always played an important role in Norwegian art,
perhaps because Norway provides such an awesome and varied landscape to
inspire artists. The style reached its peak during the Romantic period in the
mid-1800s, which stressed the beauty of unspoiled nature. (This passion for
landscapes sets Norwayapart fromDenmark andSweden.) After 400years of
Danish rule, the soul of the country was almost snuffed out. But with semi-in-
dependence and a constitution in the early 1800s, there was a national resur-
gence. Romantic paintings featuring the power of Norway's natural wonders
and the toughness of its salt-of-the-earth folk came into vogue.
