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Murdering the Druids and Burning their Groves
By Samuel Wale and Anthony Walker 1726 - 1775 In the Romantic period of the 18th century there was a move to look back through history to their ancestors and to recreate an ancient and noble past. The Romantic Movement was a backlash against the Age of Reason of the previous century, which had been about logic, science and mathematics, rather than emotions, feelings and the individual person. This picture takes the idea of ‘the noble savage’ and applies it to the Ancient Britons (the druids). It conveys the idea that the Britons had an idyllic life-style of nature worship, that was destroyed by the organised ‘civilisation’ of the Romans.
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