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Page 1: Chapter 11: The Enlightenment. The Rococo Style The rococo style is defined as being softer and more delicate than the baroque

Chapter 11: The Enlightenment

Page 2: Chapter 11: The Enlightenment. The Rococo Style The rococo style is defined as being softer and more delicate than the baroque

The Rococo Style

• The rococo style is defined as being softer and more delicate than the baroque.

Page 3: Chapter 11: The Enlightenment. The Rococo Style The rococo style is defined as being softer and more delicate than the baroque

The Rococo Style

• In France– The Salon• The most prominent of

the salon was held by Madame Geoffrin.• It was regarded as

bringing together the sexes in “good company.”

Page 4: Chapter 11: The Enlightenment. The Rococo Style The rococo style is defined as being softer and more delicate than the baroque

The Rococo Style

• In France– Antoine Watteau• He was one of the

most successful rococo painters.• His scenes were

peaceful and composed of pastel colors and dream atmospheres. The Music Lesson

Page 5: Chapter 11: The Enlightenment. The Rococo Style The rococo style is defined as being softer and more delicate than the baroque

The Rococo Style

• In France– Rosalba Carriera• She was a Venetian who

introduced the use of pastel crayons as a medium.

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The Rococo Style

• In France– Ballet d’action• Created by the French, it was a ballet that

communicated through dramatic movements made by the dancers.

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The Enlightenment

• The Enlightenment is defined as the belief that humans could perfect society through the application of intellect to human affairs.

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The Enlightenment

• The Philosophes– The enlightened thinkers

of Paris.– Denis Diderot created

the Encyclopedia.

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The Enlightenment

• The Philosophes– Voltaire• Probably the most influential of

all Philosophes.• He was intrigued by Newtonian

Law and in response championed the deist concept (that God created the universe to operate by rational law).

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The Enlightenment

• The Philosophes– Voltaire• He was also the most famous

satirist of his age.• His most famous work was

Candide, which was a parody of rational enlightenment.

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The Enlightenment

• The Philosophes– Jean-Jacques Rousseau• He wrote The Social Contract.• He codified Locke’s earlier

concepts of giving up natural rights for civil liberty in an organized society.• He also promoted the general will

or the collective interest of the citizens guided by their interests and virtue.

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The Enlightenment

• The Philosophes– Adam Smith• He was regarded as a

philosophe but was not French.• He wrote The Wealth of

Nations giving birth to the concept of economics.

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The Enlightenment

• The Philosophes– Adam Smith• He proposed the “Invisible Hand

Theory,” which stated that economics were determined by the law of supply and demand.• He developed the concept of

laissez faire in which economics benefitted without the interference of the state.

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The Enlightenment

• The Bourgeoisie (the common) Response– The Novel• A long work of narrative fiction

with realistic characters and settings.• Jane Austen was regarded as the

one who perfected the medium.– Sense & Sensibility– Pride & Prejudice

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The Enlightenment

• The Bourgeoisie (the common) Response– German Theater• Gotthold Ephraim Lessing

authored Sturm and Drang (Storm and Stress) which was dedicated to German nationalism.

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The Enlightenment

• Music– Wolfgang Amadeus

Mozart• He was a master of the

galant style, a clear, lively, “natural” style when compared to the baroque.• He developed the motif or

melodic idea.

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The Enlightenment

• Music– Joseph Haydn• He developed the

symphony in its Classical form, in which it is composed of four movements.

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The Enlightenment

• Neoclassical Style– Was the art of recapturing the art of the ancient

Greeks and Romans.

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The Enlightenment

• Neoclassical Style– Thomas Jefferson• He was a major proponent of the style of architecture.• Most prominently promoted in his own home

Monticello.

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The Enlightenment

• Satire– The idea of poking fun at social evils with the

intent of fixing them.

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The Enlightenment

• Satire– Voltaire– Jonathan Swift• A Modest Proposal

which pointed out the economic disparity between the English and the Irish.• He also penned

Gulliver’s Travels.