Neoclassicism Flashcards
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John Vanderlyn 1775-1852
- Trains briefly with Gilbert Stuart
- studies in France
- Tight Neoclassical style. Grand manner.
- Inspired by Jaque Louis David
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John Vanderlyn
The death of Jane McCrae 1804
- Neoclassical/Rainaissance rticulation of musclature
- emphasis on the figures in the foreground
- dramatic lighting
- Her lover in the distance, too late
- was one of the rotunda pictures
- resemles postures in David’s “The Lictors Bring Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”
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John Vanderlyn
Adriane asleep in the island of naxos 1815
- nudity ok if historical/religious scene
- dramiatic lighting
- not so strict with anatohmy, idealization
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John Vanderlyn
The gardens of Versailles 1819
Panorama Rotunda
- to show the avrage Newyorker what it looked like
- styalized. Not a concern for formality
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Rembrant Peale 1778-1860
- Painter, museum keeper after his father
- Early portrits, then to France.
- inspired by David
The court of death 1820
- quoting the “nightmare” (dante)
- Hiarchitic and compositional scale among the figures
