François de Cuvilliés:

Amalienburg Pavilion, Mirrored

Hall, 1734-39

Munich (Germany)

"femmes savants" (wise women) and the beginning of "matronage"

Poussinistes and Rubenistes

the rise of the aristocracy and a taste for luxury and delicacy

a taste for the "natural"

art as a guide to morality

The 18th Century: New Patrons and New Styles

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Watteau: Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717, oil/canvas, 4'3 x 6'4fête galante: amorous festival

Neumann: Vierzehnheiligen (14 Saints) Pilgrimage Church,

1744-72

Johann Balthasar Neumann:Kaisersaal (Imperial Hall in the

Palace-Residence), in Wurzburg.

Giambattista Tiepolo: ceiling frescoes in the Imperial Hall

1719-1753

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Adelaide Labille-Guiard:

Madame Elisabeth de France (detail)

ca. 1787

pastel on blue paper, seven sheets joined

and laid down on canvas; oval, 31 x 25

3/4 in.

Gustavus Hamilton in Masquerade Costume, ca.

1730-31

Flora, Completed between 1705

and 1708

the taste for the "natural":

pastel portraits

Rosalba Carriera's early pastel portraits

Yinka Shonibare: The Swing(after Fragonard), 2001

Fragonard: The Swing1766, o/c, 35 x 32"

Parts 1 and 2 of the Four Seasons (ea. 22 x 28 in.)

Cupid, a Captive, 1754 [o/c, 5'6 x 2'10]

François Boucher : The Bird Catchers, 1748Oil on canvas, 116 x 133 in.

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze: The Village Bride

1761, o/c, 36 x 42 1/2"

the sentimental narrative (also called the moral genre)

Joseph Wright: A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery1766, o/c, 1.47x2.03m.

Industrial and Intellectual Revolutions:

Watts: coal-burning steam engine, 1769

Newton, Locke, Descartes and Voltaire: the "doctrine of progress" and the value of

rational thinking

Diderot: Encyclopédie (35 volumes; 1751-1780)

Rousseau: the Age of Sensibility (a call for the natural and the "primitive")

The Age of Enlightenment and the Age of Sensibility

Joseph Wright:

Study Head of a Woman

ca. 1770grisaille pastel on

blue laid paper, 15 7/8 x 11 in.

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Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun: Self-Portrait

ca. 1790, 8'4 x 6'9

From the natural portrait to the "grand manner" and neoclassical portrait

Hogarth's Marriage-a-la-mode: A comedy of manners?

the British moral genre

1. The Marriage Settlement2. The Tête à Tête (Shortly after the

Wedding)

entire series circa 1743, oil on canvas, each approx. 28 x 36 in.

Broken Eggs

1756

o/c; 73 x 94 cm.

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Houdon: Benjamin Franklin, 1779 (marble, 16.5" ht)Enlightenment era sculpture

Jean-Antoine HoudonHoratio Greenough

Adelaide Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils,

1785

Oil on canvas, 83 x 59 1/2 in.

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Richard Boyle and William Kent: Chiswick House: exterior, East front, begun 1725, Middlesex, England (Palladian

classicism)

Robert Adam: Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, beg.

1761

reconstuctions of the Anteroom and the Etruscan room

Neoclassical Art and Architecture

a moral genre for the upper class?

Horatio Greenough: GW1833-1841.

Height 11 feet, 6 inches.

George Washington, 1788-1792, marble, 6'2

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Jacques Germain Soufflot

The Pantheon (orig. Eglise Ste.

-Genevieve), Paris, 1755-1792

Thomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1806near Charlottesville, Virginia

Thomas Jefferson: Monticello, 1770-1806

near Charlottesville, Virginia

James Stuart and Nicholas Revett:

Antiquities of Athens (1762)

Stuart: Doric portico in Hagley Park, 1758

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Historical context:French revolution: begins 1789

Reign of Terror: 1793-5Napoleon as emperor: 1804-14

Louis XVIII returns: the Restoration, 1814-30

Oath of the Horatii, 1784-1785, oil/canvas, 10'10 x 13'11

Jacques-Louis David

Angelica Kauffmann: Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi1785, oil on canvas, 40x50" - exemplum virtutis

Neoclassical paintings

Pierre Vignon: La Madeleine, 1807-1842 (Paris)

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Ingres: Apotheosis of Homer, 1827, oil/canvas, 12'8 x 16'10

Ingres: Reclining Odalisque, 1814, oil on canvas, 35 7/8 x

63 3/4 in

Antonio Canova: Pauline Bonaparte

Borghese as Venus, marble, 6'7 in length,

1805-1808

David: The Coronation of Napoleon and Josephine1805-1808, oil on canvas, 20' x 32'

David: Death of Marat, 1793

oil/canvas5'5 x 4'2

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Antoine-Jean Gros: Bonaparte Visits the Plague-Ridden

Pesthouse of Jaffa (11 March 1799), 1804, o/c, 17'5 x 23'7

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