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Napoleonic Europe 1800-1815

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Goals

• Understand the origins and spread of the luxurious and decorative style known as Rococo.

• Understand the main styles of Neoclassicism and Romanticism in the early 19th century Europe and America.

• Examine reasons for the broad range of subject matter, from portraits and landscape to mythology and history.

• Discuss initial reaction by artists and the public to the new art medium known as photography

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28.1 Rococo: The French Taste

• Examine the luxurious artistic expressions of salon culture which culminated in the style known as Rococo.

• Understand the completeness of the style, in decorations, accessories, paintings and sculpture, interiors, and architecture.

• Examine the extreme development of the Rococo style in Germany.

• Examine the development of the Rococo style, its materials, colors, and design elements.

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GERMAIN BOFFRAND, Salon de la Princesse, with painting by CHARLES-JOSEPH NATOIRE and sculpture by J. B. LEMOINE, Hôtel de

Soubise, Paris, France, 1737–1740.

Mansart and LeBrun, Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles, c 1680

Johann Balthasar Neumann,

Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall), Residenz,

Wurzburg, Bavaria, Germany, 1719-1744

The Marriage of the

Emperor Frederick and

Beatrice of Burgandy,

1751-52

Tiepolo

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FRANÇOIS DE CUVILLIÉS, Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, Nymphenburg Palace park, Munich, Germany, early 18th century.

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Art of the French Salons

• Examine the artistic expressions of salon cultural style known as Rococo.

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ANTOINE WATTEAU,

L’Indifférent, ca. 1716. Oil on

canvas, approx. 10” x 7”. Louvre, Paris.

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Louis XIV, 1701, English Baroque,

9’ x 6’

French Rococo, 10” x 7”

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ANTOINE WATTEAU, Return from Cythera, 1717–1719. Oil on canvas, approx. 4’ 3” x 6’ 4”. Louvre, Paris.

Rubens, The Garden of Love, Flemish Baroque 1633

FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, Triumph of Venus, 1740

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FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, Cupid a Captive, 1754. Oil on canvas, approx.

5’ 6” x 2’ 10”. The Wallace Collection,

London.

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JEAN-HONORÉ FRAGONARD,

The Swing, 1766. Oil on

canvas, approx.

2’ 11” x 2’ 8”. The Wallace Collection,

London.

JEAN-HONORÉ

FRAGONARD

The Meeting,

1771-73

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Satyr Crowning

a Bacchante, 1770

CLODION

Giovanni da Bologna(Giambologna),

Rape of the Sabine Women

Bernini, Rape of Persephone

Italian Baroque

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Scientific Art of the Enlightenment

• Understand the motivation of the Enlightenment and the interest in science and the natural world and its effect on artistic expression.

• Understand the philosophical concepts of Voltaire as they relate to artistic expression.

• Examine the early applications of technology and scientific advancements to art.

• Understand the expression of scientific ideas in art and art as recording observations in the natural world.

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WILLIAM HUNTER, Child in Womb, drawing from dissection

of a woman who died in the ninth

month of pregnancy, from Anatomy of the Human Gravid Uterus, 1774.

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JOSEPH WRIGHT OF DERBY, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery (in which a lamp is put in place of the sun), ca. 1763–1765. Oil

on canvas, 4’ 10” x 6’ 8”. Derby, Derbyshire.

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ABRAHAM DARBY III and THOMAS F. PRITCHARD, iron bridge at Coalbrookdale, England (first cast-iron bridge over the Severn River),

1776–1779. 100’ span.

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The Taste for the Natural

• Examine the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in contrast to Voltaire, his interest in the ‘natural’ as opposed to the ‘artificial,’ and artistic expression of these ideas.

• Understand the different styles of the “natural” in France, England, the United States, and in Italy.

• Examine choices of ‘ordinary’ life, the natural world, and sentimentality as subjects in art.

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The Natural Taste in France

• Examine the subject matter and formal elements in the “natural taste” in France.

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Grace at Table, 1740

JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN,

The Governess, 1739

31 JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE, The Village Bride, 1761.

Oil on canvas, 3’ x 3’ 10 1/2”. Louvre, Paris.

JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE, The Drunken Cobbler, 1780-85

33 Self-Portrait, 1790

ÉLISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LEBRUN

Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children, 1788

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The Natural Taste in England

• Examine the issues of morality, satire, and narration in visual art in England.

37 WILLIAM HOGARTH, Breakfast Scene, from Marriage à la Mode, ca.

1745. Oil on canvas, approx. 2’ 4” x 3’. National Gallery, London.

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The English Grand Manner Portrait

• Examine the English Grand Manner portrait as an expression of the natural taste in Rococo form.

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THOMAS GAINSBOROUGH, Mrs. Richard

Brinsley Sheridan, 1787. Oil on canvas,

approx. 7’ 2 5/8” x 5’ 5/8”. National Gallery of Art,

Washington

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Lord Heathfield,

1787.

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Natural Taste in the United States

• Examine the American taste for “downrightness” and plainness in art.

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BENJAMIN WEST, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771. Oil on canvas, approx. 5’ x 7’ National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

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JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, Portrait of Paul Revere,

ca. 1768–1770. Oil on canvas,

2’ 11 1/8” x 2’ 4”. Museum of Fine Arts,

Boston

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Italian Natural Taste and Tourism

• Understand the concept of the “Grand Tour” and the expression of the “picturesque” in art.

46 ANTONIO CANALETTO, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, ca. 1735-40.

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Revival of Classicism

• Understand how the discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii create an interest in classical art.

• Understand the formal elements of classical art and their revival in 19th century art and architecture.

• Examine Neoclassical art and architecture in France, England, and in the United States.

• Examine the adaptation of classical and mythological subject matter in Neoclassical art.

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Neoclassical Art in France

• Understand the formal elements of classical art and their revival in 19th century.

• Examine the adaptation of classical and mythological subject matter.

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Angelica Kauffmann, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures, or Mother of the Gracchi, ca. 1785. Oil on canvas, 3’ 4” x 4’ 2”.

51 JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, Oath of the Horatii, 1784. Oil on canvas,

approx. 11’ x 14’. Louvre, Paris.

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JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Death of Marat,

1793. Oil on canvas,

approx. 5’ 3” x 4’ 1”.

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JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, The Coronation of Napoleon, 1805–1808. Oil on canvas, 20’ 4 1/2” x 32’ 1 3/4”. Louvre, Paris.

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French Neoclassical Architecture

• Examine classical revival in architecture as an expression of French power and glory.

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JACQUES-GERMAIN SOUFFLOT, the Panthéon (Sainte-Geneviève), Paris,

France, 1755–1792.

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PIERRE VIGNON, La Madeleine, Paris, France, 1807–1842.

Neoclassical Art in Italy

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ANTONIO CANOVA, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1808. Marble, life-size. Galleria Borghese, Rome.

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Neoclassical Art and Architecture in England

• Understand classical elements of art and architecture, Palladian influence, and their revival in 19th century England.

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RICHARD BOYLE (earl of Burlington) and WILLIAM KENT, Chiswick House, near London, England, begun 1725.

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Alternate View Principal Facade with entrance gate

© 2005 Saskia Cultural Documentation, Ltd.

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JOHN WOOD THE YOUNGER, the Royal Crescent, Bath, England, 1769–1775.

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JAMES STUART, Doric portico, Hagley Park,

Worcestershire, England, 1758.

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Etruscan Room, Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, begun 1761.

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The Neoclassical in the United States

• Examine Neoclassical as the national style in art and architecture in the United States in the early 19th century.

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THOMAS JEFFERSON, Monticello, Charlottesville, United States, 1770–1806.

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Drawing of view of Washington, 1852, showing BENJAMIN LATROBE’S Capitol

(1803–1807) and MAJOR L’ENFANT’S plan (created in 1791) of the city.