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Opera and French Painting
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Art History
Undergraduate 4
01/25/2009

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First Opera performance
Definition
1607 in Mantua
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Gesamtkunstwerk
Definition
Means complete work, operatic performance
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Claudio Monteverdi
Definition

L'Orfeo, Toccata, 1607

L'Arianna, Lament, 1608

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Henry Purcell
Definition

Dido and Aenaeas, 1659-95

Dido's Lament, 1689

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George Friedrich Handel
Definition

Rinaldo, 1771

Dixit Dominus, 1707

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Nicholas Poussin
Definition
Self portrait, 1650
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Rubens
Definition
Le Chapeau de Paille, c1622-5
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Antoine Coypel
Definition
Angels ministering to Christ in the Desert
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Hyacinthe Rigaud
Definition
Portrait of Louis XIV, 1701
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Carle Van Loo
Definition

Portrait of Louis XV, 1748

Pompadour as Sultana

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Jean Restout
Definition
The Supper at Emmaus, 1733
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Francois Boucher
Definition
The Arts and Sciences, 1750-2
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Antoine Watteau
Definition

1684-1721

The Scale of Love, 1715-8

The Champs Elysees, 1717-8

Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, 1717

Gilles, 1718-9

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Claude Gillot
Definition
The Two Coaches, 1707
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Jean-Baptiste Pater
Definition
Fete Galante, The Pleasure Boat
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Nicholas Lancret
Definition
Lady in a garden taking coffee, c.1742
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Thomas Gainsborough
Definition
Mr and Mrs Andrews, c.1748-9
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Francois Boucher
Definition

1703-1770

Shepherd watching sleeping shepherdess (Daphnis and Chloe), 1743-5

Birth of Venus, 1740

Madame de Pompadour, 1756, 1759(W)

The Setting of the Sun, 1753

Rising of the Sun, 1753,

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Jean-Marc Nattier
Definition
Madame de Pompadour as Diana
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Francois-Hubert Drouais
Definition
Pompadour at her Tambour Frame, 1763-4
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Francois Boucher
Definition

Pan and Syrinx, 1759,

Odalisque, 1745

Term
Martini
Definition
Print of the Paris Salon (print)
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Jean-Honore Fragonard
Definition

Portrait of Diderot, 1769

Psyche showing her sisters her gifts from Cupid, 1753 Coresus and Callirhoe, 1765

The Swing, 1767

The Lock, 1776

The Visit to the Nursery, before 1784,

The Meeting from the Progress of Love, 1771-2

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Vernet
Definition

Shipwreck, 1770

View of Naples from the North, 1740

Port of Bordeaux, 1759

The Shipwreck, 1772

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Hubert Robert
Definition
The Maison Carree at Nimes
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Jean Baptiste-Simeon CHARDIN
Definition

The Jar of Olives, 1760

The Skate,before 1728

A Bowl of Plums, 1728

The House of Cards, 1736-7

The Young Schoolmistress, 1735-6

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Definition

Village Betrothal, 1761

Septimus Severus and Caracalla, 1769

Ungrateful Son and Punished Son, 1778

A Girl and her Dog,

A girl with Doves

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Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
Definition
Self portrait in a straw hat, before 1782
Term
Academie Royale de Peinture et de Sculpture
Definition
French Royal Academy
Term
Fetes Galantes
Definition
paintings of parties of people out of doors, flirting, dancing, chattting
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Commedia dell'Arte
Definition
Originally Italian theatre, featureing characters like Harlequin, Columbine, Scaramouche all involved in games of love, seduction and deception
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Florent Dancourt

Joudar de la Motte

Claude Duflos

Definition
authors and printmakers who represented Cythera
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Jullienne
Definition
friend of Watteau's, published prints of his work after Watteau's death
Term
Seven Years War
Definition
1756-63
Term
Denis Diderot
Definition
Critic, writer, key author in French Encyclopaedia project
Term
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Definition
writer and philosopher
Term
The 'Salon'
Definition
public exhibition organised by the Academie, c. every two years after 1737
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Pausanias
Definition
Description of Greece--Soucrce of subject of Fragonard's Coresus and Callirhoe
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Salon de la Correspondance
Definition
non-Academie exhibition, 1779-87 (only 8 years)
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'figures de fantaisie'
Definition
expressive, partly imagined portraits by Fragonard
Term

Madame de Pompadour

Madame du Barry

Definition

Louis XV's most powerful mistress

and the last mistress

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Jean-Baptiste Oudry
Definition
The Dead Wolf, 1721
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