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NEOCLASSICISM. Characteristics Celebrates/imitates classical style Desire to return to “purity” of Greek/Roman style Architecture, painting, sculpture.

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1 NEOCLASSICISM

2 Characteristics Celebrates/imitates classical style Desire to return to “purity” of Greek/Roman style Architecture, painting, sculpture Reaction against Rococo of late 18 th century Art of the Napoleonic era

3 Characteristics Goes hand in hand with Enlightenment – rationality and order Not interested in nature or emotion Mainly based in France

4 Prominent Artists Jacques Louis-David Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres Francisco Goya Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun

5 Jacques Louis-David French Court painter for Louis XVI Elected to National Convention during Revolution Imprisoned during Reign of Terror Became First Painter to Napoleon

6 Oath of Horatii

7 Oath of the Tennis Court

8 Death of Marat

9 Napoleon Crossing St. Bernard Pass

10 Marie Antoinette brought to the Guillotine

11 Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres French Influenced later painters like Degas and Picasso

12 Napoleon on his Imperial Throne

13 Odalisque

14 Francisco Goya Spanish Painted for aristocracy and royalty Court painter during French invasion but despised Napoleonic rule Did not glorify war or battle Embodied some Romanticist elements as well

15 Second of May 1808

16 Third of May 1808

17 Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun French Greatest woman painter of her time Husband was a painting dealer Portraits of aristocracy Marie Antoinette’s official painter Left France during Revolution Also painted in Rococo style

18 Portrait of Marie Antoinette

19 Self Portrait with Daughter

20 Architecture Arc de Triomphe Cathedral in Lithuania


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