The 18 th century Vocabulary Rococo Académie Royale Hôtel Salon Fête Galante The Enlightenment Philosophes Empirical Exemplum Virtutis Neoclassical Reign of Terror Jacobins Girondins
Hyacinthe Rigaud, King Louis XIV, France, 1701 Bâtiments du roi 1648 Académie Royale- Hierarchy of painting:History, Religion, Mythology, Portraiture, Decorative works, Genre scenes, Still-life
Charles Le Brun, Louis Le Vau, and Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles, France,
Le Hammeau (1770) Marie Antoinette
Hall of Mirrors, Versailles
Germain Boffrand, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, Hôtel Salon
Madame de Pompadour François Boucher Mistress of King Louis XV
Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, France, Fête Galante
François Boucher, Venus at her Bath, France, 1751
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, France, 1766
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, England, Philosophes Empirical
Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a Bird in an Air-pump, England, 1768
Jean-Baptiste- Siméon Chardin, Grace at Table, France, 1740 Exemplum virtutis
Jean-Baptiste- Siméon Chardin, Grace at Table, France, 1740 Exemplum virtutis
Elizabeth Louise Vigée- LeBrun, Marie- Antoinette en Chemise, France, 1783
Angelica Kauffmann, The Mother of the Gracchi, Swiss, Neo-Classicism, 1785
Vigée-LeBrun, Marie Antoinette and her Children (at Versailles), French, 1787
Adélaide Labille- Guiard, Self-portrait with Two Pupils, France, 1785
Neoclassicism
Artists, architects, potters, and even furniture makers drew much inspiration from Pompeii. Contemporary painted interiors were inspired by the frescoed walls found in the excavations.
Neoclassicism and the French Revolution June 11, 1775: Coronation of Louis XVI July 4, 1776: American Declaration of Independence July 14, 1789: storming of the Bastille August 27, 1789: Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, French, Neo- Classicism, 1784
Prix de Rome The goal of every Academy student was to win the premier student prize: The Prix de Rome David took part in the competition every year starting in 1770.
David, Marie Antoinette on the way to the Guillotine, 1793 June 20, 1791: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette unsuccessfully flee France for Austria September 22, 1792: Declaration of the Republic of France, abolition of the Monarchy January 21, 1793: Beheading of King Louis XVI
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat, : Jacobin Reign of Terror, Committee of Public Safety July 13, 1794: Assassination of Marat by Girondin, Charlotte Corday
Pierre Vignon, La Madeleine, Paris, French,
The Parthenon, Athens, Greece, BCE
Jacques-Louis David, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1808
December 24, 1799: Dictatorship established under Napoleon August 2, 1802: Napoleon declared First Consul for life December 2, 1808: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France
How big is it? [17 x 30 ft.]
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia,
The Pantheon, Rome, 118 AD
Jefferson drew the plans for the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond as an almost exact copy of the Maison Carree. Almost all of the rest of American governmental buildings, including Washington, D. C., followed the example that Jefferson had set
Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814, France In breaking with his teacher David, Ingres adopted a manner that he felt was based on true and pure Greek style. List two characteristics of that style:
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