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| Masculine, dramatic, light and shade, Louis XIV era |
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| the palace of The king of France, Louis XIV, "guilded imprisonment" to whoever was invited there. |
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| Feminine- Begins with the death of Louis XIV. Aristocratic Era. Celebration -freedom from Versailles. Paris is the new center. Decorative Arts - Interior Design. Intimate. Irregularly shaped shell |
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| little childlike chubby flying- baroque- usually male |
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| informed, intelligence, question everything, question the divine right of kings, eventually led to revolution |
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| Philosophers, Voltaire, Diderot |
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| co-founder and chief editor of and contributor to the Encyclopédie |
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| Scenes from everyday life |
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Artist: Rigaud
Title: Portrait of Louis XIV
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Shows Absolutism type power through decoration |
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Artist: Boffrand
Title:Salon de la Princesse
Medium: Interior Design
Description: Light and Playful compared to Versailles. Intimate social gatherings. Elegantly carved wood paneling. Paintings intertwined into the walls and wood. More Rococo |
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Artist: Fragonard
Title: The Secret Meeting
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: People in the 18th century, lovers. Venus and cupid are alegorical love figures. Was rejected becuase it was to closly symbolising Madame du Barry being chased by Louis XV |
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Artist: Chardin
Title: Saying Grace
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Genre Scene. Middle class. no celebrations. Shows that patrons dominate the subject of art which in this case is the middle class |
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| Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture (The French Academy) |
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School for artists in France
LOTS of notes... so.. see lecture notes instead |
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| Under the rule and established of Louis XIV. |
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| First Art Historian, coined the term Art History, wrote History of Ancient Art. Said Apollo Belvedere was the perfect male figure |
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| Perfectionism. "ideal" figure. how ever the artist wanted to show "real life" like hiding blemishes, or taller figure |
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| return to classic ideal with simplicity, clarity, directness, and nobility, represents Idealism IDEALISM |
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| buried by mt Vesuvius eruption and almost perfectly preserved, art was preserved and was a "fad" in late 18th century |
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| educational "right of passage" tour of Europe. usually upper-class young men did this. |
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| a scholarship for arts students, principally of painting, sculpture and architecture for the French Academy |
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| English Academy for art students, still in operation |
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| Making an actual statement, "history". |
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| Anglo Irish, Poet, Philosopher, published Treatise on aesthetics |
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| revival of Gothic in england? Strawberry Hill |
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| greatness in which all else cannot be compared. something so massive or masterful that it can hardly be described |
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| Publisher, Trade relations with france, elected lord mayor of London, opens Boydell's Shakespeare Gallery on Pall Mall in London, ended poorly, first "coffee table book" |
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| the shape of your face determines what your personality is, coined by Kaspar Lavatar |
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Artist: Greuze
Title: The Paralytic
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: Direct influence of Denis Diderot, a art critique saying that rococo images art at the same level of prostitution, delt with contemporary realities, genuine sentiment image of a dying father, Rousseuian- emotion, transition into neoclassicism from Rococo |
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Artist: Roman copy of Greek original
Title: Apollo Belvedere
Medium: Marble
Description: Wincklemann's Perfect "male" figure. soft belly, not muscular because hes a thinker not a worker |
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Artist: Batoni
Title: Lord Thomas Dundas
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Description: Grand Manner Portrait, about to travel to see the arts on the Grand Tour, idealised, wishes to be "educated" on the tour |
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Artist: Vien
Title: Seller of Cupids
Material: oil on canvas
Description: reinterpertation of an image in pompei preserved. This was the time of the pompeii and hurculeium "fad" |
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Artist: David
Title: Oath of the Horatii
Medium: oil on Canvas
Description: Father sending his sons out to battle for Rome, founder of Rome against Curiatii. all the people in the picture are related, also to the Curiatii brothers, "Propaganda" for the French Revolution |
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Artist: Canova
Title: Monument to Maria Christina
Medium: Marble
Description: does no glorify the death, no christian symbols, enlightenment, strong contrast wit the girl standing in front of the dark doorway. Maria is sister to Marie Antoinette |
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Artist: Flaxman
Title: Admiral Lord Nelson
Material: Marble
Desciption: Jesus replaced with a hero, from Napoleonic wars. |
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Artist: Hogarth
Title: The Death of the Countess
Medium: oil on canvas
Description: the whole series is Humorous, shows what happends to rich english couples who deviate. |
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Artist: Reynolds
Title: Portrait of Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse
Material: oil on Canvas
Description: the actress Mrs. Siddon is portrayed as Lady MacBeth, also as a godess, allegories of Pity and Anger are behind her. mixture of Grand Manner Portraiture and History painting. |
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Artist: Walpole
Title: Strawberry Hill
Medium: Architecture
Desciption: Gothik, converted cottage into a Gothic castle since, Walpole did not think neoclassical represented England at all, interior is comfortable - rococoish |
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Arist: West
Title: The Cave of Despair
Material: Oil on Canvas
Description: from Spencer's poem "the Fairie Queen" the red knight is going to kill himself but Una stops him. una represents the protestant church. basically all of this is about being depressed |
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Artist: Fuseli
Title: The Nightmare
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Desciption: Nothing is more sublime than a dream. the woman is a virgin thinking about how she needs to get married and have sex. the woman is dreaming with an incubus on top of her. the horse represents the act of sex. |
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Artist: Blake
Title: The Lamb, The Tyger. From Songs of Innocence
Material: relief etching with watercolor
Description: not everyone is innocent but not everyone is bad. he always went against the grain, never oil on canvas. bad speller.. |
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Artist: Vigee-Lebrun
Title: Portrait of Marie Antoinette
Material: Oil on Canvas
Description: idealised soft beautiful, shows her before the french revolution, idealised for the most powerful woman in the world |
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Artist: David
Title: The Tennis Court Oath
Medium: Pen and Ink on Paper
Description: shows the events during the oath of the tennis court, unfinished, empty space shows the power of the idea |
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Artist: David
Title: The Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of his Sons
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Description: "title" because he sent them off to die because of treason. This is another propaganda peice from David showing "would you send your son to die for your nation?" |
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Artist: David
Title: Death of Marat
Material: Oil on Canvas
Description: Marat is a Jacobian journalist, Corday was working for the Giordians. Corday kills Marat because he is a paranoid that sends thousands to be beheaded for being with the crown. This image is highly idealised, the 2 letters shown are not original, this is a propaganda peice to make Marat seem better than he really is, hero to the commoners |
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Artist: Prud'hon
Title: The French Constitution, Equality, Law
Medium: Chalk on Paper
Description: Allegories of Equality and Law, just like the spirit of liberty and wisdom, it tells how to create a strong government |
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Artist: Prud'hon
Title: The Spirit of Liberty, and Wisdom
Medium: Crayon, graphite, gouache on paper
Description: allegories of freedom and wisdom(minerva) a strong free government is lead through wisdom |
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Artist: Soufflot
Title: Pantheon (Previously church of St. Grenevieve)
Material: Architecture
Description: changed from a church to a mosaleum, severe, stage point for Davids "parade" operations, where he would put on parades commemerating Voltaire to get the french people |
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Artist: David
Title: Coronation of Napoleon
Material: Oil on Canvas
Description: Actually the Coronation of Josephine. Painting the coronation of napoleon was to boring. David fabricated most of the imagry in the painting, the church is real but is rearranged to have a better composition, even the sun is fabricated. |
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Artist: Gros
Title: Napoleon Visting the Plague House at Jaffa
Material: oil on Canvas
Description: Idealised Napoleon. He is tall, he is touching the wound of a sick man. He is christ like in that touching "heals". Apollo Belvedere pose. Romanticism/neoclassical. Painted by a student of David |
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Artist: Girodet
Title: The Sleep of Endymion
Material: Oil on Canvas
Description: romantic and classical painting. Endymion is put to sleep forever. Endymion is androgynous |
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Artist: David
Title: The Sabine Women
Material: Oil on Canvas
Desciption: David painted this while he was in prison. This is an image of a normal weak woman in his painting to be strong and saying, lets stop this now. Lets drop our arms and rebuild. Also whos side will you be on, is the question that might of been asked |
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