The Anti-The Anti-ClassicClassic

What do you do after the peak moment of an idea?

Classical Greece and HellenismClassical Greece and Hellenism

Simplified issues of HellenismSimplified issues of Hellenism

• Greece conquered by the Greek educated Macedonian – Alexander

• Expanding “global view” created by the exchanges within the new, large empire

• Synthesis of Greek and “Barbarian”

The Renaissance & MannerismThe Renaissance & Mannerism

Raphael, The Entombment

Fiorentino, Moses Defending the Daughters of Jethro

The Renaissance & MannerismThe Renaissance & Mannerism

Bellini, Madonna With Saints Parmigianino, Madonna with The Long Neck

The Renaissance & MannerismThe Renaissance & Mannerism

Romano, Palazzo de Té, Mantua

Michelangelo, The Campidoglio, Rome

The End of the RenaissanceThe End of the Renaissance

• What do you do after Raphael and the other “super-geniuses” of the age?

• Sack of Rome in 1527 by HRE, Charles V as part of a power struggle within the Catholic church

• Florence, the birthplace of the Renaissance rose up against the influence of the de’ Medici clan, the original patrons of the R.

French Baroque + RococoFrench Baroque + Rococo

Watteau, Embarkation from CytheraPoussin, Burial of Phocion

French Baroque + RococoFrench Baroque + Rococo

Le Vau, Hall of Mirrors, Versailles

Cuvilles, Salon at the Amalienburg, Munich

Reasons for the RococoReasons for the Rococo

• In part Rococo was an extension of the aesthetic of the Baroque

• Change of French Kings (Louis XIVXV) = change in the court’s favor: the Grand Manner became an endless search of the pleasurable life

• The excess of the Baroque provided a reason to seek a more intimate approach