François de Cuvilliés:
Amalienburg Pavilion, Mirrored
Hall, 1734-39
Munich (Germany)
"femmes savants" (wise women) and the beginning of "matronage"
Poussinistes and Rubenistes
the rise of the aristocracy and a taste for luxury and delicacy
a taste for the "natural"
art as a guide to morality
The 18th Century: New Patrons and New Styles
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Watteau: Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717, oil/canvas, 4'3 x 6'4fête galante: amorous festival
Neumann: Vierzehnheiligen (14 Saints) Pilgrimage Church,
1744-72
Johann Balthasar Neumann:Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall in the
Palace-Residence), in Wurzburg.
Giambattista Tiepolo: ceiling frescoes in the Imperial Hall
1719-1753
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Adelaide Labille-Guiard:
Madame Elisabeth de France (detail)
ca. 1787
pastel on blue paper, seven sheets joined
and laid down on canvas; oval, 31 x 25
3/4 in.
Gustavus Hamilton in Masquerade Costume, ca.
1730-31
Flora, Completed between 1705
and 1708
the taste for the "natural":
pastel portraits
Rosalba Carriera's early pastel portraits
Yinka Shonibare: The Swing(after Fragonard), 2001
Fragonard: The Swing1766, o/c, 35 x 32"
Parts 1 and 2 of the Four Seasons (ea. 22 x 28 in.)
Cupid, a Captive, 1754 [o/c, 5'6 x 2'10]
François Boucher : The Bird Catchers, 1748Oil on canvas, 116 x 133 in.
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Village Bride
1761, o/c, 36 x 42 1/2"
the sentimental narrative (also called the moral genre)
Joseph Wright: A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery1766, o/c, 1.47x2.03m.
Industrial and Intellectual Revolutions:
Watts: coal-burning steam engine, 1769
Newton, Locke, Descartes and Voltaire: the "doctrine of progress" and the value of
rational thinking
Diderot: Encyclopédie (35 volumes; 1751-1780)
Rousseau: the Age of Sensibility (a call for the natural and the "primitive")
The Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Sensibility
Joseph Wright:
Study Head of a Woman
ca. 1770grisaille pastel on
blue laid paper, 15 7/8 x 11 in.
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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun: Self-Portrait
ca. 1790, 8'4 x 6'9
From the natural portrait to the "grand manner" and neoclassical portrait
Hogarth's Marriage-a-la-mode: A comedy of manners?
the British moral genre
1. The Marriage Settlement2. The Tête à Tête (Shortly after the
Wedding)
entire series circa 1743, oil on canvas, each approx. 28 x 36 in.
Broken Eggs
1756
o/c; 73 x 94 cm.
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Houdon: Benjamin Franklin, 1779 (marble, 16.5" ht)Enlightenment era sculpture
Jean-Antoine HoudonHoratio Greenough
Adelaide Labille-Guiard
Self-Portrait with Two Pupils,
1785
Oil on canvas, 83 x 59 1/2 in.
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Richard Boyle and William Kent: Chiswick House: exterior, East front, begun 1725, Middlesex, England (Palladian
classicism)
Robert Adam: Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, beg.
1761
reconstuctions of the Anteroom and the Etruscan room
Neoclassical Art and Architecture
a moral genre for the upper class?
Horatio Greenough: GW1833-1841.
Height 11 feet, 6 inches.
George Washington, 1788-1792, marble, 6'2
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Jacques Germain Soufflot
The Pantheon (orig. Eglise Ste.
-Genevieve), Paris, 1755-1792
Thomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1806near Charlottesville, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1806
near Charlottesville, Virginia
James Stuart and Nicholas Revett:
Antiquities of Athens (1762)
Stuart: Doric portico in Hagley Park, 1758
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Historical context:French revolution: begins 1789
Reign of Terror: 1793-5Napoleon as emperor: 1804-14
Louis XVIII returns: the Restoration, 1814-30
Oath of the Horatii, 1784-1785, oil/canvas, 10'10 x 13'11
Jacques-Louis David
Angelica Kauffmann: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi1785, oil on canvas, 40x50" - exemplum virtutis
Neoclassical paintings
Pierre Vignon: La Madeleine, 1807-1842 (Paris)
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Ingres: Apotheosis of Homer, 1827, oil/canvas, 12'8 x 16'10
Ingres: Reclining Odalisque, 1814, oil on canvas, 35 7/8 x
63 3/4 in
Antonio Canova: Pauline Bonaparte
Borghese as Venus, marble, 6'7 in length,
1805-1808
David: The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine1805-1808, oil on canvas, 20' x 32'
David: Death of Marat, 1793
oil/canvas5'5 x 4'2
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Antoine-Jean Gros: Bonaparte Visits the Plague-Ridden
Pesthouse of Jaffa (11 March 1799), 1804, o/c, 17'5 x 23'7
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