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18th-19th Century Eurpoean
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Art History
Undergraduate 2
02/03/2010

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c) 1717-19, Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera

  • celebrates infidelity & emotion
  • putti show sexual symbols
  • romantic, pleasant

 

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u) 1790, Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, Self Portrait

  • shows skills and success
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h) 1754, Francois Boucher, Cupid a Captive.

  • domesticated nature
  • subtle female/female sexuality
  • arouses king
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i) 1758, Francois Boucher, Portrait of Madame Pompadore.

  • beautiful and educated
  • roses = venus
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e) 1737-40, Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princess, Hotel de Soubise

  • organic lines bring out-in
  • mythological & erotic
  • Rococo interior
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b) 1701, Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV

  • shows absolutism
  • "the sun king"
  • moved court to Versailles from Paris
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k) 1765, Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Father's Curse

  • Son comes back crippled, no riches & guilt
  • no benefit in not following family duty
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k) 1765, Jean-Baptiste Greauze, The Son Punished

* Diderot "Salon of 1765: 3 sketches of Greuze"

  • Oldest son tries to leave not following family roles
  • Should stay home and take care of dying father
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f) 1740, Jean-Baptiste Chardin, Grace at Table

  • Shows connection between mother and child
  • Diderot: "Happy Mothers"
  • Family roles & women raising child
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l) 1766, Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Swing

  • Flashing lover
  • Light is focused on two main characters
  • Illicit affair between aristocrats
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m) 1768-1770, John Singleton Copley, Portrait of Paul Revere

  • Shows his enterprise as a working man
  • Copley and Revere are both showing craft
  • Virtue by nature of hard-work
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j) 1761, Robert Adam, Etruscan Room

  • Roman wallpainting
  • Big designer of 18th century
  • frilly Rococo-like
  • Kauffman did interior painting
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d) 1725, Richard Boyle (Earl of Burlington), Chiswick House

  • Influenced by Palladio
  • in England so must have chimmeneys
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z) 1810, Caspar David Friedrich, Abbery in the Oak Forest.

  • nature as church
  • landscape
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o) 1771, Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe

  • radical for its time
  • History painting, christlike
  • Native americans are just watching history happen
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zd) 1826, Eugene Delacroix, The Death of Sardanapalus.

  • extreme violence
  • most middle easterners are white?
  • red symbolizes blood
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q) 1781,Hunter, Child in the Womb

  • Female body as object of science
  • HOW THINGS WORK
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zha) 1860, Wilson Homer, The Veteran in a New Field

  • US transition after war
  • "beat your swors into plowshares"
  • Death also carries a scithe
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zc) 1821, John Constable, The Haywain

  • Closure Laws
  • family losing home, nostalgic view
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q) 1781, Henry Fuseli, The Nightmare

  • incubus/succubus
  • thrashing in sleep
  • erotic
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zf) 1830, Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People.

  • woman in toga = allegory
  • "the people" show all types
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zb) 1818-19, Theodore Gericault, The Raft of Medusa

  • political govt. scandal
  • romantic, appeals to emotions
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g) 1745, William Hogarth, Breakfast Scene from Marriage a la Mode

  • dissheveled upper class
  • satire
  • "Comic History"
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r) 1784, Jaques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii

*Anon, "Painting

*Boime, " Iconography of Napoleon"

  • Men represent state and govt.
  • praised for accuracy
  • French Academy
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ze) 1827, Jean-Aguste Dominique Ingres, Apotheosis of Homer

  • apotheosis= raising to god level
  • famous artists & authors
  • history
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s) 1785, Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to her Children as her Treasures.

  • exemplum virtutis
  • Values children over jewels
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v) 1793, Jaques-Louis David, Death of Marat

  • martyr to cause
  • official painter of revolution
  • memorial
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za) 1814, Jean-Aguste Dominique Ingres, Grande Odalisque

  • orientalism
  • "sex slave"
  • fantasy
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zh) 1840, JMW Turner, The Slave Ship

  • sublime, evokes terror yet beautiful
  • perspective!
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zg) 1836, Thomas Cole, The Oxbow

  • Manifest Destiny, natives arent using land well
  • "gods eye view"
  • balance of wild and tame
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zi) 1868, Albert Bierstadt, Among the Sierra Nevada Nevada

  • sublime, and majestic
  • impacts public life
  • gaining respect for land
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n) 1770-1806, Thomas Jefferson, Monticello

  • Made from availble material (brick)
  • portico in front at dome on top
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t) 1785, Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan

  • 1st president of Royal Academy
  • woman = one with nature
  • nature = liesrue
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zj) 1867, Edmonia Lewis, Forever Free.

  • american neo-clacissism
  • de-racialized
  • borrowed subject matter
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j) 1763-65,Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery

  • Family gathered with a tutor
  • Men are interested in science, not Women
  • influenced by Caravaggio
  • Science as subject matter
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za) 1814, Francisco Goya, The Third of May 1808

  • sympathize with spanish
  • martyr for the cause
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w) 1804, Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon at the Pest House at Jaffa.

  • commisioned by napoleon
  • shows him as compassionate
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y) 1808, Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus.

  • only shown by candle light
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t) 1787, Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Heathfield

  • redcoat
  • work is done
  • noble hero
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a) 1648, Poussin, Burial of Phocion

  • Standard History Painting
  • Toga depicting history painting
  • perfect nature
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i) 1758, James Stuart, Doric Portico

  • greek columns and "pizza box"
  • in the middle of NO WHERE
  • "FOLLIES" fake ruins
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x) 1805- 08, Jaques- Louis David, Coronation of Napoleon

  • importance of coronation
  • shows approval
  • separation of church and state
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