Courbet

Burial at Ornans

1849
Realism
Genre Scene 

Courbet
Stonebreakers

1849

Realism
First Socialist Painting ever created 

Millet
The Sower

1850
Realism

France 

Ingre
Apotheosis of Homer

1827
French 

Tiepolo
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy

1766
Spain 

Goya
The Family of Carlos IV

1800
Spain 

Overbeck
Portrait of Franz Pforr

1810
Germany 

David
Death of Marat

1793

France

David

Napoleon Crossing the Alps at the Saint-Bernard Pass
1800
France 

Pritchard & Darby III

Severn River Bridge
1776
Shropshire Enland
 

Boucher
Cupid as Captive

1754
Rococo 

Fragonard
The Secret Meeting

1771
Rococo 

French landscape painters

Charles Baudelaire 

o   Significant to turn of events in art history

o   Call into question whole system of the salon

§  Becomes related to class

a sketch for a tapestry, a work for which another work is based

The Caprices a group of etchings

o   “man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”

§  connection to the tea party

§  most natural state when unfettered by government and it’s rules

·      empirical, fanciful, etc.

o   “medieval tales of adventure” – not love story more fantastical

o   a little different in different places

o   Not a kind of trend for just painting – applied to poetry, literature, drama, and such.

o    Arose as explicit and implicit

o   shift toward that faith was a huge thing

o   asserting your nationality

o   particular way of seeing nature

o   less faith in government

o   Group of young german painters, the Nazereens, renaissance painters belonged to guilds, not academies. Academy – art school, guild – labour union. Lucas brotherhood.

o   Believed religion was the key to art

o   Refused to draw from female nudes, religious reasons

o   Clear bright colors, Christian symbolism,

o   Converts to Catholicism, which is a big deal because being Lutheran was a bit part of his being German

 Overbeck

§  Famous baby angels looking up from the bottom

§  Becomes really popular and influential in the 19^th Cen. It was the Mona Lisa of the time.

beauty that is indescribable – beauty mixed with terror – something that is overwhelming

reminder of death, don’t get caught up in the superficial things of this earth

French Revolution began around 1789 when Louis the 16^th raised taxes

Louis the 16^th married to Marie Antoinette and continued to deplete treasury 

just wants to party and be frivolous and throws big lavish parties and creates her own estate and spends even more money and because of this becomes very unpopular

§  Marat was also a revolutionary and a friend of David’s, he was hated and feared

§  One enemy was Charolette Corday, she had a lot to lose in the revolution

§  Marat suffered from a skin disease causing him to have to spend a lot of time in the bathtub

a French lawyer, politician, and one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.

dictatorship pretty much, kills people who support revolution     

a harem girl, kind of like a Turkish prostitute 

·      Scientific method becomes really important during this era

·      Theatrical presentation, dark colors, intense, shadowing, realistic, sculptural, linear, hard, different portrayal of masculine beauty

·       Jean d’Alembert 

European aristocrats in 18^th cen. – leave home for year or two traveling in Italy and Greece to study major monuments, round out your education and expand language (studying abroad)

·      derogatory term that came later in the 1790s, applied to art in French monarchy and aristocracy

·      Rococo represents everything the people were against in the French Revolution

·      Rococo over the top, ornate, excess, crazy, fanciful, pretty, fluid, palates are often soft and light

giant mansions 

fool the eye

gallant party