Chapter 1 Rise of Nationalism in Europe (Pictures)

NCERT CLASS 10     

Chapter 1 Rise of Nationalism in Europe

IMPORTANT PICTURES:-

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Note :-

• In this post, I will point out all the important paintings and pictures given in the NCERT history book from Chapter 1.
• This can be used for reference so that you can be aware on the major details each picture is trying to depict all together.
• These will be asked only as identification questions.
• I have highlighted some important keywords within the points to make you remember it easier.
• The Page numbers given along side the pictures are with reference to the rationalized content from 2023-24.
• This will be updated yearly based on the rationalization
• This post only has pictures which are more likely to come or came earlier during the board examinations.

PICTURE 1 (Pg 3) :- 

• PAINTER : Frédéric Sorrieu (French)
• YEAR : 1848
• NAME : "The Pact" - Print number 1
• The print, shows the peoples of Europe and America marching in a long train and offering homage to the statue of Liberty as they pass by it.
• The statue of liberty bears the Torch of Enlightenment in one hand & The Charter of Rights of man in the other hand.
• On the earth in the foreground of the image lie the shattered remains of the symbols of absolutist institutions.
•  In Sorrieu’s utopian vision, the peoples of the world are grouped as distinct nations, identified through their flags and national costume. 
• Leading the procession, are the United States and Switzerland, which by this time were already nation-states. France identifiable by the revolutionary tricolor, has just reached the statue. She is followed by the peoples of Germany, bearing the black, red and gold flag. Following the German peoples are the peoples of Austria, the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies, Lombardy, Poland, England, Ireland, Hungary and Russia. This symbolizes the order of which the European and American nations become nation states.
• From the heavens above, Christ, saints and angels gaze upon the scene. They have been used by the artist to symbolize fraternity among the nations of the world.
• OTHER INFORMATION: Frederic Sorrieu prepared a series of prints visualizing his dream of  a world made up of "Democratic and Social Republics". The other 3 prints are "The Prologue", "The Triumph" and "The Market".

PICTURE 2 (Pg 5):-

• DESIGNED BY : ANDREAS REBMANN
• TYPE : ALMANAC
• YEAR : 1798
• The image of the French Bastille being stormed by the revolutionary crowd has been placed next to a similar fortress meant to represent the bastion of despotic rule in the German province of Kassel. 
• Accompanying the illustration is the slogan: ‘The people must seize their own freedom!’ Rebmann lived in the city of Mainz and was a member of a German Jacobin group.

PICTURE 3 (Pg 7):-

• PAINTED BY : KARL KASPAR FRITZ
• NAME : The Planting of Tree of Liberty in Zweibrücken, Germany.
• French soldiers have been portrayed as oppressors as they seize a peasant’s cart, harass some young women and force a peasant down to his knees. 
• The plaque fixed to the Tree of Liberty carries a German inscription which in translation reads: ‘Take freedom and equality from us, the model of humanity.’ 
• This is a sarcastic reference to the claim of the French as being liberators who opposed monarchy in the territories they entered.

PICTURE 4 (Pg 7):-

• NAME : The courier of Rhineland loses all that he has on his way home from Leipzig.
• Napoleon here is represented as a postman on his way back to France after he lost the battle of Leipzig in 1813. 
• Each letter dropping out of his bag bears the names of the territories he lost. 
• In simple words, This picture shows his reign coming to an end as lost wars continously.

PICTURE 5 (Pg 14):-

• PAINTER :- EUGENE DELACROIX (French)
• YEAR :- 1824
• NAME :- THE MASSACRE AT CHIOS
• This huge painting depicts an incident in which 20,000 Greeks were said to have been killed by Turks on the island of Chios. 
• Delacroix sought to appeal to the emotions of the spectators, and create sympathy for the Greeks. 

PICTURE 6 (Pg 16):- 

• This picture depicts the peasants uprising in Paris, France in 1848. This happened due to the increased rate of food shortage and unemployment. This led to Louis Phillipe (King) overthrown thus turning France into a Republic.

PICTURE 7 (Pg 18):-

• The above painting shows the Frankfurt Parliament in the church of St. Paul. 
• Here the men are seated in below and are discussing the future of Germany & it's constitution whereas the women present were seated above the men on the first floor and have no say in the decision making and are just spectators. 

PICTURE 8 (Pg 19):- 

                                   

• PAINTER : Anton Von Werner
• YEAR : 1885
• NAME : The proclamation of the German empire in the Hall of Mirrors at Versailles
• This picture shows the proclamation of Kaiser William I of Prussia as the emperor of Germany.
• At the center stands Kaiser William I and the chief commander of the Prussian army, General von Roon. Near them is Bismarck. 
• This monumental work was completed and presented by the artist to Bismarck on the his 70th birthday in 1885.

PICTURE 9 (Pg 20):-

• FOUND : This was a caricature in a French newspaper named "Le Figaro"
• YEAR : 5 March 1870
• This is a caricature of Otto von Bismarck in the German Reichstag (parliament) after the German unification.
• Here, he is standing with a whip and the elected representatives were scared of  him.
• This caricature depicts how democracy is only present in a country just for namesake but in reality the country is controlled by one person.

PICTURE 10 (Pg 22):-

• YEAR : 1859
• This is a  ENGLISH CARICATURE
• This picture shows Giuseppe Garibaldi helping King Victor Emmanuel II of Sardinia-Piedmont to wear on the boot named ‘Italy.
• This boot symbolizes the kingdom of 2 Sicilies and that Garibaldi had captured it and gave to King Emmanuel II to unify Italy.

PICTURE 11 (Pg 25):-

• PAINTER : Lorenz Classen
• NAME : Germania guarding the Rhine
• YEAR : 1860
• In 1860, Lorenz Classen was commissioned to paint this painting
• The inscription on Germania’s sword reads: ‘The German sword protects the German Rhine.’

PICTURE 12 (Pg 27):-

• This is a map celebrating the British Empire.
• At the top, angels are shown carrying the banner of freedom. 
• In the foreground, Britannia (the symbol/Allegory of the British nation) is triumphantly sitting over the globe. 
• The colonies are represented through images of tigers, elephants, forests and primitive people. The domination of the world is shown as the basis of Britain’s national pride. 

PICTURE 13 (Pg 23):-

• PAINTER : Philip Veit
• YEAR : 1848
• NAME : GERMANIA
• The artist prepared this painting of Germania on a cotton banner, as it was meant to hang from the ceiling of the Church of St Paul where the Frankfurt parliament was convened in March 1848.

PICTURE 14 (Pg 24):-

• PAINTER : Julius Hubner
• YEAR : 1850
• NAME : The Fallen Germania
• This picture shows the allegory of Germany to have been fallen which symbolizes the failure of the Frankfurt Parliament to unify the German states.

PICTURE 15 (Pg 24):-

• The symbols given in the above picture symbolize the following :                
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