Environment and Context
- Romanticism of the 19th century
- Historicism: The longing for values of medieval times
- Pre-Raphaelites – Nazarenes
- Religious movements, new faith
- Numerous new churches in growing cities
- Arts and Crafts Movement in England
- The new capitalist and industrial developments
- The new industrial methods
- The spirit of promoterism in Germany
- Emigration movements to the United States
- Immigrants in the US kept up their own cultural values.
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