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Humanities test 3
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10/27/2014

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Louis XIV
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Built Versailles
ruled for 72 years
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Louis XV
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Great Grandson of Louis XIV
He was purpoted to say "Apres moi(nous) le deluge = After Me (us)
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Louis XVI
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Married to Marie Antoinette
Grandson of Louis XV
His reforms were to little and to late to meet
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July 14 1789
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Bastille Day

The 3rd Estate met at Versailles. By this time, the French were starving

1792-1795- Reign of terror Louis XVI and Marie Antoniette go to Gillotine
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Rococo
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Style of Madame Pompadour in the 18th century. lightweight of style and elegance, it's main subject was love and colors were a lot lighter
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1748
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Pomepeii and Herculaneum are excavated. Began a new style of antiquity
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Antoine Watteu
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first favorite of Madame Pompadour. He was very poignant and his style had a fashionable outing in a park like setting
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Francois Boucher
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Most erotic and X rated painter, he painted for LouisXV
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Fragonard
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Outlived the aristocracy. he was the most flirtatious
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William Hogarth
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Painted modern and moral subjects. He was sometimes dismissed as a cartoonist
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Thomas Gainsborough
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Painted elegat full length portraits. He had a loose style and painted mostly the upper middle class rather than nobility
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Neo Classicism
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Style of the revolution. I became a revamp of antiquity, showing the public minded values of moral virtue, patriotic self sacrifice etc.
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Jacques Lou David
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Signed death warrants. his paintings were moralistic paintings calling men to arms. he later became Napoleon's ally
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