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The 18th centuryVocabulary
• Rococo• Académie Royale• Hôtel• Salon• Fête Galante• The Enlightenment• Philosophes• Empirical• Exemplum Virtutis
• Neoclassical• Reign of Terror• Jacobins• Girondins
Hyacinthe Rigaud, King Louis XIV, France, 1701
•Bâtiments du roi•1648 Académie Royale-Hierarchy of painting:History, Religion, Mythology, Portraiture, Decorative works, Genre scenes, Still-life
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, England, 1763-65
•Philosophes•Empirical
• Artists, architects, potters, and even furniture makers drew much inspiration from Pompeii.
• Contemporary painted interiors were inspired by the frescoed walls found in the excavations.
Neoclassicism and the French Revolution
• June 11, 1775: Coronation of Louis XVI
• July 4, 1776: American Declaration of Independence
• July 14, 1789: storming of the Bastille• August 27, 1789: Declaration of the Rights
of Man and the Citizen
Prix de Rome
• The goal of every Academy student was to win the premier student prize:
The Prix de Rome
• David took part in the competition every year starting in 1770.
David, Marie Antoinette on the way to the Guillotine, 1793
•June 20, 1791: Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette unsuccessfully flee France for Austria
•September 22, 1792: Declaration of the Republic of France, abolition of the Monarchy
•January 21, 1793: Beheading of King Louis XVI
Jacques-Louis David,
Death of Marat, 1793
•1793: Jacobin Reign of Terror, Committee of Public Safety
•July 13, 1794: Assassination of Marat by Girondin, Charlotte Corday
•December 24, 1799: Dictatorship established under Napoleon
•August 2, 1802: Napoleon declared First Consul for life
•December 2, 1808: Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of France
• Jefferson drew the plans for the Virginia State Capitol Building in Richmond as an almost exact copy of the Maison Carree.
• Almost all of the rest of American governmental buildings, including Washington, D. C., followed the example that Jefferson had set
Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814, France
• In breaking with his teacher David, Ingres adopted a manner that he felt was based on true and pure Greek style. List two characteristics of that style: