TOPIC: ART OF ANCIENT GREECE

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1 This chapter explores art of the 1700 s and early 1800 s in Europe and North America, including painting, architecture, decorative arts, and sculpture. Some trends of this era include the intellectual philosophy known as The Enlightenment, with emphasis on the artistic movements of Rococo, Neoclassicism, Romanticism and Gothic Revival. NOTE: THIS PERIOD MARKS THE BEGINNING OF THE MODERN ERA NOTE: Be prepared for some REVIEW QUESTIONS on the Chapter Test. TOPIC: ART OF ANCIENT GREECE We will be studying Mid- to late Nineteenth Century Art in Europe and the United States as our next topic. Feel free to scan the pages in that section and take some notes in order to get a head start.

2 TERMS: Salon (905), memento mori (907), fête galante (908), pastel (912), capriccio (912), veduta (913), kiln (917), jasperware (917), crenellations (920), ateliers (944), odalisque (950), lithography (951), sublime (955) Idyllic (907): Picturesque (917): Apotheosis (917): École des Beaux-Arts (944): Charmingly rustic and beautiful Interesting but ordinary domestic landscape, designed to please the eye Moment is which someone is made into a god School of Fine Arts CONCEPTS TO KNOW: Know the basic principles of The Enlightenment (904) Know the basic principles of Romanticism thinking (904) Know the artistic conventions of Rococo style (905) Know that Rococo style spread in France when the monarchy moved from Versailles to Paris (905) Know what the Prix de Rome was (909) Know what the Grand Tour was. Describe the purpose and location(s) of this journey (911) Know the rediscovery of Pompeii & Herculaneum was instrumental in fostering Neoclassical style (911) Know the goals of Neoclassical art and what democratic Neoclassical patrons hoped to achieve (911) Know the role that Cardinal Alessandro Albani played in the fostering of Neoclassical style (913) Know how Johann Winckelmann is associated with Albani. Know his thoughts on Rococo style (913-14) Know Johann Winckelmann s contributions to the study of art history (914) Know the primary traits of Romanticism and how it arose in Great Britain (915) Read Art and Its Contexts: Academies and Academy Exhibits (first two paragraphs) (924) Know how Ben. West, an American Neoclassical painter, affects British Romanticism painting ( ) Know who Denis Diderot was, as well as what he thought art should accomplish (932) Know the fundamental difference between the poussinistes and rubénistes (944) Read The Object Speaks: Raft of the Medusa ( ) Know that most American governmental architecture was made in Neoclassical style (958) GUIDE TO THE MAJOR TRENDS OF 18 th AND EARLY 19 th CENTURY ART IN EUROPE/NORTH AMERICA: Rococo: Neoclassicism: Romanticism: Sensual, ornate, and complex -Pastel colors, delicately curving forms, dainty figures, lighthearted mood Simplified, historical, and restrained. Universal and high-minded -Typically a more public art form, used history as inspiration Emotional, subjective, imaginative, irrational, celebrates the individual -Typically a more private art form, used contemporary life as inspiration

3 LECTURE SLIDES: TITLE ARTIST YEAR Europe and North America in the Eighteenth Century Line Art Thomas Mifflin and Sarah Morris John Singleton Copley 1773 Paul Revere John Singleton Copley 1768 Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise, Paris Germain Boffrand 1732 The Signboard of Gersaint Watteau 1721 Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera* Watteau 1717 REMEMBER: Henry IV Rec. Portrait of Marie de Medici Peter Paul Rubens REMEMBER: The Suitor s Visit Gerard ter Borch 1658 Girl Reclining: Louise O Murphy François Boucher 1751 Madame de Pompadour François Boucher 1756 Triumph of Venus* François Boucher 1740 The Swing** Jean-Honoré Fragonard 1766 The Meeting Jean-Honoré Fragonard The Invention of the Balloon Clodion 1784 Satyr and Bacchante Clodion 1775 Church of the Vierzehnheiligen, Bavaria, Germany Johann Neumann Plan of Church of the Vierzehnheiligen, Bavaria, Germany Line Art REMEMBER: Plan of San Carlo alle Quattro Fontane Borromini Charles Sackville, 2 nd Duke of Dorset Rosalba Carriera 1730 Louis XV* Rosalba Carriera The Doge s Palace and the Riva Degli Schiavoni* Canaletto 1730s Santi Giovanni e Paolo Monument Bartolommeo Colleoni Canaletto REMEMBER: Equestrian of Bartolommeo Colleoni Andrea del Verrocchio 1490 Westminster Abbey, Procession of Knights of the Bath Canaletto 1749 Capriccio of Classical Ruins Giovanni Paolo Pannini View of the Pantheon, Rome* Piranesi 1756 Villa of His Eminence Cardinal Alessandro Albani Piranesi 1769, published Parnassus** Mengs 1761 REMEMBER: Apollo Belvedere Greek Late Classical 350 BCE

4 Pauline Borghese as Venus* Canova 1808 Psyche Revived by Cupid* Canova The Three Graces Canova 1817 Chiswick House, West London* Richard Boyle Plan of Chiswick House, West London Richard Boyle REMEMBER: Villa Rotunda, Vicenza, Italy Palladio 1560s The Park at Stourhead, Wiltshire, England Flitcroft and Hoare 1743 The Apotheosis of Homer* Josiah Wedgwood Am I Not a Man and a Brother? * Hackwood & Wedgwood 1787 Am I Not a Woman and a Sister? U.S. coin 1838 Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, England Horace Walpole Strawberry Hill Picture Gallery, Twickenham, England Walpole, Chute and Bentley after 1754 REMEMBER: Ishtar Gate and Throne Room Babylon, Iraq 575 BCE Interior of Henry VII's Chapel in Westminster Abbey Canaletto 1750s Strawberry Hill Library, Twickenham, England Walpole, Chute and Bentley after 1754 Georgian Silver Morley, Burrows, Cooke, Bateman &Bateman The Marriage Contract, Marriage à la Mode: part 1* Hogarth The Tête à Tête, Marriage à la Mode: part 2 Hogarth The Inspection, Marriage à la Mode: part 3 Hogarth The Toilette, Marriage à la Mode: part 4 Hogarth The Bagnio, Marriage à la Mode: part 5 Hogarth The Lady s Death, Marriage à la Mode: part 6 Hogarth Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces Joshua Reynolds 1765 Robert Andrews and Frances Carter Thomas Gainsborough An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump* Joseph Wright 1768 A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery Joseph Wright 1765 Academicians of the Royal Academy Johan Zoffany Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures* Kauffmann 1785 Self Portrait Caught between Arts and Music Kauffmann 1791 Severn River Bridge, Coalbrookdale, England Abraham Darby III 1779 The Death of General Wolfe* Benjamin West 1770

5 REMEMBER: Lamentation, Scrovegni Chapel, Padua Giotto The Incredulity of Thomas Benjamin West The Nightmare* Fuseli 1781 Lady Macbeth with the Daggers Fuseli 1812 Newton* William Blake Elohim Creating Adam William Blake 1795 Watson and the Shark** John Singleton Copley 1778 Panthéon (Church of Sainte-Geneviève)* Soufflot, Paris Plan of Panthéon (Church of Sainte-Geneviève) Soufflot, Paris Cutaway Illustration of Panthéon (Sainte-Geneviève) Soufflot, Paris The Governess* Chardin 1793 The Village Bride* Greuze 1761 The Drunken Cobbler* Greuze 1780 Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children* Vigée-Lebrun 1781 Marie Antoinette Holding a Rose Vigée-Lebrun 1783 Self-Portrait Vigée-Lebrun 1790 Self-Portrait with Straw Hat Vigée-Lebrun 1782 Oath of the Horatii** Jacques-Louis David 1785 Study for Oath of the Horatii Jacques-Louis David Death of Marat* Jacques-Louis David 1793 REMEMBER: Entombment, Vittrici Chapel, Rome Caravaggio Death of Socrates Jacques-Louis David 1787 Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley Girodet-Trioson 1797 Self-Portrait with Two Pupils* Labille-Guiard 1785 George Washington* Jean-Antoine Houdon Benjamin Franklin Jean-Antoine Houdon 1778 The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters, Los Caprichos Francisco Goya 1799 Family of Charles IV* Francisco Goya 1800 REMEMBER: Las Meninas Diego Velázquez 1656 Third of May, 1808** Francisco Goya 1815 Saint Peter Repentant Francisco Goya 1824

6 Clothed Maja Francisco Goya 1800 Naked Maja Francisco Goya 1800 Saturn Devouring One of His Sons Francisco Goya 1823 Atrial Cross, Chapel of the Indians, Basilica of Guadalupe Mexico City before 1556 Virgin of Guadalupe* Sebastian Salcedo 1779 Mission San Xavier Del Bac (exterior) Tuscon, Arizona Mission San Xavier Del Bac (interior) Tuscon, Arizona Ecole des Beaux (boze)-arts, Paris (School of Fine Arts) Coronation of Napoleon I, 2 nd December, 1804 Jacques-Louis David 1807 Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard Jacques-Louis David Napoleon in his Study Jacques-Louis David 1812 Napoleon in Plague House at Jaffa* Gros 1804 REMEMBER: Prayer Hall, Great Mosque Cordoba, Spain Raft of the Medusa * Géricault The Sighting of Argus Géricault 1818 The Sighting of Argus Géricault 1818 Study of Hands and Feet Géricault Portrait of a Kleptomaniac Géricault 1820 Liberty Leading the People** Delacroix 1830 Departure of Volunteers of 1792, Arc de Triomphe, Paris Rude Arc de Triomphe, Paris Large Odalisque* Ingres 1814 Portrait of Madame Desire Raoul-Rochette Ingres 1830 Apotheosis of Homer Ingres 1827 Louis Bertin Ingres 1832 Napoleon on his Imperial Throne Ingres 1806 The Print Lovers* Daumier Third Class Carriage Daumier 1862 Diagram of the lithographic process Line Art The Hay Wain* John Constable 1821 The White Horse John Constable 1819

7 REMEMBER: Salisbury Cathedral England Salisbury Cathedral from the Bishop s Grounds John Constable 1821 Salisbury Cathedral from the Meadows John Constable 1821 Stonehenge John Constable 1836 The Slave Ship* Joseph Turner 1840 Burning of Houses of Lords and Commons, October, 1834* Joseph Turner 1834 Venice: The Customs Office and San Giorgio Maggiore Joseph Turner 1834 The Oxbow* Thomas Cole 1836 Sunday Morning on the Hudson River Thomas Cole 1827 The Architect s Dream Thomas Cole 1840 Among the Sierra Nevada Mountains, California Albert Bierstadt 1868 Monk by the Sea* Caspar Friedrich 1809 Wanderer Above the Sea of Fog Caspar Friedrich 1818 Abbey in the Oak Forest Caspar Friedrich 1810 Houses of Parliament, London Barry and Pugin Westminster Abbey Trinity Church, New York (exterior)* Richard Upjohn Trinity Church, New York (interior) Richard Upjohn Trinity Church Cemetery, September 11, 2001 Altes Museum, Berlin Karl Friedrich Schinkel (Line Art) Altes Museum, Berlin Karl Friedrich Schinkel Spree River, Berlin United States Capitol, Washington, D.C.* Benjamin Latrobe 1808 United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. Thomas U. Walter 1859 United States Capitol, Washington, D.C. s Baltimore Basilica Benjamin Latrobe Monticello (exterior)** Thomas Jefferson 1782 Monticello (sketch) Thomas Jefferson 1782 Monticello (interior) Thomas Jefferson 1782 *Possibly a slide-identification question. Know the title and artist. **Know the title, artist and YEAR.