BALTHASAR NEUMANN

interior of the pilgrimage chapel of Vierzehnheligen

Staffelstein, Germany

1743-1772

 Rococo

ANTOINE WATTEAU

Return from Cythera

1717-1719

Oil on Canvas

fête galante

Rococo

FRANCOIS BOUCHER

Cupid a Captive

1754

Oil on Canvas

Rococo

JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD

The Swing

1766

Oil on Canvas

Rococo

JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

1763-1765

Oil on canvas

Elightenment doctrine of progress.

Enlightenment

ABRAHAM DARBY III and THOMAS F. PRITCHARD
Iron Bridge

Coalbrookdale, England

1776-1779

Over Severn River

Industrial Rev = engineering advances. 

Enlightenment

ÉLISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LEBRUN

Self-Portrait

1790

Oil on canvas

Admitted to France's Royal Academy

Painting Marie Antoinette.

Enlightenment

WILLIAM HOGARTH

Breakfast Scene

Marriage á la Mode

1745

Oil on canvas

Satirized 18 c. English life.

Marital immorality of moneyed class.

Enlightenment

JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY

Portrait of Paul Revere

1768-1770

Oil on canvas

Down to earth character, differentiating American work from Euro counterparts.

Enlightenment

ANGELICA KAUFFMAN

Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures/Mother of the Gracchi

1785

Oil on canvas

Enlightenment fascination with classical antiquity and with classical art.

Exemplum virtutis

Neoclassicism

JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID

Oath of the Horatii

1784

Oil on canvas

Neoclassical painter-ideologist of French Rev.

Celebrates Roman patriotism

Neoclassicism

JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID
Death of Marat

1793

Oil on canvas

Tragic martyr

Neoclassical spareness/convincing realism = pain/outrage

Neoclassicism 

JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT

Panthéon (Sainte-Geneviéve)

Paris, France

1755-1792

Enlightenment admiration for Greece/Rome

Greek cross plan/portico based on Roman temple

Neoclassicism

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Monticello

Charlottesville, Virginia

1770-1806

Neoclassicism.

Palladian/recalls Chiswick House

THOMAS JEFFERSON

Rotunda and Lawn

University of Virginia

Charlottesville, Virginia

1819-1826

Modeled on Pantheon.

Elevated platform overlooking colonnaded lawn.

Neoclassicism