Francisco Goya

Family of Charles IV

1800. Oil on canvas

The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters

Francisco Goya

From Los Caprichos (The Caprices)

1796-1798

etching and aquatint

Third of May, 1808

Francisco Goya

1814-1815

Napoleon Crossing the Saint-Bernard

Jacques-Louis David

1800-1801

Oil on Canvas

Napoleon in the plague house at Jaffa

Antoine-Jean Gros

1804

Oil on Canvas

- worked in david's studio as a teenager and eventually vied with david for commissions from napoleon

- pays tribute to david's oath of horatii with arches

The Raft of the "Medusa"

Theodore Gericault

1818-1819

oil on canvas

- fits history painting, but it exposes incompetence and a willful disregard for human life rather than to ennoble, educate, remind viewers of their civic responsibility

- jean charles - black man from french senegal who showed endurance and emotional fortitude is hero

- athletic bodies evoking michelangelo and Rubens

Liberty Leading the People:  July 28, 1830

Eugene Delacroix

oil on canvas

1830

Large Odalisque

Jean-Auguste-Dominique

1814

- vocab word: odalisque: an exoticized version of a female slave or concubine in a sultan's harem

She told me that she won't ask to classify this image as Neoclassical or Romanticism because it has elements of both.  As the book states, "Ingres' commitment to academic line and formal structure was grounded in his Neoclassical training, but his fluid, attenuated female nudes are much more in the Romantic tradition."

Rue Transnonain, le 15 avril 1834

Honore Daumier

Lithograph - artist draws on flat surface with crayonlike instrument, then wiped with water, then oil based ink, the ink adheres to the greasy areas but not the wet ones; series of these steps, then paper is laid down, pressed together with a scraper, and rolled through a flatbed press

Slavers throwing overboard the Dead and Dying - Typhoon coming on ("The Slave Ship")

Joseph Mallord William Turner

1840

Oil on canvas

- Romantic, rejected careful underdrawing and topographic accuracy in favor of freer application of paint and more generalized atmospheric effects

- sought to capture the sublime, a concept defined by philosopher Edmund Burke as something that strikes awe and terror into the heart of the viewer.  There is no real threat, however: the sublime is experienced vicariously and it is therefore thrilling and exciting

Caspar David Friedrich

Monk By The Sea

1809

Oil on canvas

- from germany, Romantic landscape painter

- considered landscape as a vehicle through which to achieve spiritual revelation

- sketched from nature but painted in the studio, synthesizing his sketches with his memories of and feelings about nature

Rosalba Carriera

- leading portraitist in venice in first part of 18th cent

- worked mainly in pastel - dried faster

- pastel = pulverized pigment bound to a chalk base by weak gum water; can sketch quickly and spontaneously or can produce a shiny and highly finished surface

The Doge's Palace and the Riva Degli Schiavoni

Canaletto

Late 1730s

- vedute:  a more naturalistic rendering of famous buildings and views, well known tourist  attractions, and local color in the form of tiny figures

Giovanni Battista Piranesi

View of the Pantheon, Rome

1756; first in a series of etching

- produced a large series of vedute of ancient Roman monuments and ruins

- was a print maker

- this work is the study of ancient Roman architecture

Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise

Germain Boffrand

begun 1732

The Signboard of Gersaint

Jean-Antoine Watteau

1721 oil on canvas

the clock on the left is a momento mori - a reminder of mortality

women starying in mirror = vanitas theme

Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera

Jean-Antoine Wattea

1717 oil on canvas

fete galantes - elegant outdoor entertainment - created this category just for him

putti - the little naked boys/cupid things

Girl Reclining: Louise O'Murphy

Boucher

1751; oil on canvas

The Swing

Fragonard

1766; oil on canvas; Rococo

putti with dolphin below girl on swing

was commissioned from another artists who refused to paint it because said it was too sensually explicit

Interior, Church of the Vierzehnheiligen

Johann Balthasar Neumann

1743-1772; Germany

use of oval in floor plan of church

rococo

Parnassus

Mengs

1761

Neoclassical

Scene is taken from classical mythology - mount parnassus is where the ancients believed Apollo and the nine muses resided

composition was said to capture elements of Greek sculpture

Pauline Borghese as Venus

Antonio Canova

1808; Marble

Neoclassical

- commissioned by Napoleon, of his sister who married Prince Borghese

- She is portrayed here as Venus

- her husband didn't like it, said it confirmed questionable rumors about her, so put in back room of Villa

- cushions and drapery seem real

Chiswick House

Richard Boyle (Lord Burlington)

West London, England

1724-1729

- Neo-palladianism, inspired by villa rotonda

- central core is octagonal rather than round

- roman temple front

floor plan chiswick house

- richard boyle (Lord burlington)

octagonal center rather than circle

neo-palladian/ neoclassical

The Marriage Contract

William Hogarth

1743-1745

- meant to encourage self-improvement in viewers that would lead to social progress/ teach moral lessons

The Orgy

William Hogarth

1734

An experiment on a bird in the air-pump

Joseph Wright of Derby

1768

mixes enlightenment ideals (scientific study) with drama (Romanticism)

Cornelia pointing to her children as her treasures

Angelica Kaufmann

1785

History painter, neoclassical

The Death of General Wolfe

Benjamin West

1770

broke neoclassical and academic history painting rules

"modern history" painting

The Nightmade

John Henry Fuseli

1781

Romanticism