Barron's: Chapter 19 - Rococo and Neoclassicism Flashcards

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Essential Knowledge

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  • the late eighteenth century is known as the Enlightenment, a period of scientific advance. it is followed by the revolutionary principles of the Romantic period
  • new philosophies, particularly those by Marx and Darwin, spread throughout the world. these views were supplemented by a new understandings of worldwide cultures
  • modern movement include neoclassicism and romanticism
  • artists belong to academies and show their work in salons
  • architecture is characterized by a series of revivals
  • the salons of Paris grow in importance
  • artists work less in the service of religion, more for corporations
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The Swing

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  • Jean-Honore Fragonard
  • 1767
  • oil on canvas
  • Wallace Collection, London
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Individual, Status, and Society
    • Augustus of Primaporta
    • Sin Sukju
    • Mblo
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Time Period

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  • Rococo: 1700-1750 and beyond

- Neoclassicim: 1750-1815

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Self-Portrait

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  • Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
  • 1790
  • oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Individual, Status, and Society
    • Augusts of Primaporta
    • Sin Sukju
    • Mblo
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The Tete a Tete from Mariage a la Mode

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  • William Hogarth
  • c. 1743
  • oil on canvas
  • National Gallery, London
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Personal Relationships
    • van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait
    • Veranda post
    • Sultan Muhammad, Court of the Gayumars
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A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

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  • Joseph Wright of Derby
  • 1763-1765
  • oil on canvas
  • Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, U.K.
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Knowledge
    • Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Sheikh to Kings
    • Cabrera, Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
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Monticello

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  • Thomas Jefferson
  • 1768-1806
  • brick, glass, stone, and wood
  • Charlottesville, Virginia
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comarisons: Classical Revival
    • Houdon, George Washington
    • Donatello, David
    • Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai
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The Oath of the Horatti

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  • Jacques-Louis David
  • 1784
  • oil on canvas
  • Louvre, Paris
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Historicism
    • Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park
    • Shonibare, The Swing
    • Sherman, Untitled
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George Washington

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  • Jean-Antoine Houdin
  • 1788-1792
  • marble
  • State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
  • Neoclassicism/Rococo
  • Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Rulers
    • Menkaura and His Queen
    • Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
    • Augustus of Prima Porta
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academy

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  • an institution whose main objectves include training artists in an academic tradition, ennobling the profesison, and holding exhibitions
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exemplum virtutis

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  • a painting that tells a moral tale for the viewer
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fete galante

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  • an eighteenth-century french style of painting that depicts the aristocracy walking through a forested landscape
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grand tour

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  • in order to complete their education young Englishmen and Ameriicans in the eighteenth century undertook a journey to Italy to absorb ancient and Renaissance sites
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pastel

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  • a colored chalk that when mixed with other ingredients produces a medium that has a soft and delicate hue
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salon

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  • a government-sponsored exhibition of artworks held in Paris
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