Art in the Modern World
LECTURE 8 | Rococo to Neoclassicism (18th C)
A U G U S T I N E C O L L E G E The Rococo French Comedy
Antoine-Jean WATTEAU 1714 Mezzetin Antoine-Jean WATTEAU 1718-20 The Declaration of Love 1724 Jean-François de TROY A Lady in a Garden Taking Coffee with Some Children 1742 Nicolas LANCRET The Birth of Venus 1740 François BOUCHER Fastening the Skate 1777 Nicolas LANCRET Is He Thinking about Grapes? 1747 François BOUCHER The Pursuit 1771-73 Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD The Stolen Kiss 1787 Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD The Music Party 1774 Louis-Roland TRINQUESSE The Toilet of Venus (i.e., Venus Dressing)
1751 | François BOUCHER Mme Bergeret
François BOUCHER Denis DIDEROT
Encyclopedia Encyclopaedia, or Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts, and Trades 1777 Encyclopaedia, or Classified Dictionary of Sciences, Arts, and Trades 1777 ‘history painting’ biblical subjects mythological subjects events from human history (classical & modern)
portraits genre subjects scenes of domestic life
nature landscapes still-lifes Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna 1643 | Charles LE BRUN Woman Cleaning Turnips 1738 Jean-Baptiste-Siméon CHARDIN Swan Attacked by a Dog 1745 | Jean-Baptiste OUDRY The Academy of the artist Piazzetta | 18th C Exhibition of the Royal Academy, London 1787 Coresus Sacrificing Himself to Save Callirhoe 1765 | Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD The Pursuit
1771-73 Jean-Honoré FRAGONARD Louis XIV 1665 | BERNINI Charles X Distributing Awards to Artists Exhibiting at the Salon of 1824 at the Louvre
1824 | François-Joseph HEIM The Salon of 1785 at the Louvre
Catalogue of the exhibition of the Royal Academy 1761 Self-portrait Jean-Baptiste GREUZE circa 1770 Benjamin Franklin
1777 Jean-Baptiste GREUZE The Head of the Family Reading the Bible to His Children 1755 | Jean-Baptiste GREUZE The Broken Eggs 1756 | Jean-Baptiste GREUZE
The Broken Eggs detail
1756 Jean-Baptiste GREUZE
The Broken Eggs detail
1756 Jean-Baptiste GREUZE Neoclassicism Self-portrait
Jacques-Louis DAVID 1794 Grooming of a Young Bride in Classical Dress 1777 | Joseph-Marie VIEN GRAND PRIX DE ROME The Combat of Mars and Minerva 1771 | Jacques-Louis DAVID Belisarius Receiving Alms
1781
Jacques-Louis DAVID
PIERRE CORNEILLE 1606-1684 The Death of Camilla
preparatory sketch | 1781 | Jacques-Louis DAVID The Oath of the Horatii 1784 | Jacques-Louis DAVID The Oath of the Horatii detail
The Salon of 1785 at the Louvre The Oath of the Horatii detail The Tennis-Court Oath 1791 | Jacques-Louis DAVID The Death of Socrates 1787 | Jacques-Louis DAVID The Death of Socrates | detail Jean-Paul Marat Jean-François GARNERAY before 1793 The Death of Marat
Jacques-Louis DAVID 1793 The Death of Marat | detail The Death of Marat | detail The Death of Marat detail
citing: Louis Groarke, “The Deceitful Artwork: Beautiful Falsehood or False Beauty?” Humanitas (September 1999) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery 1784 | Jean-Germain DROUAIS Young Woman Drawing 1801 Marie-Denise VILLERS La Marseillaise 1833-36 Jean-Francois RUDE George Washington
Antonio CANOVA plaster modello for a marble statue later destroyed 1820 The Death of Wolfe Benjamin WEST | 1770 Medusa Medallion | 1770-80
Josiah WEDGWOOD
Apotheosis of Homer | 1786 Teapot | Josiah WEDGWOOD
Plaster cast in a blue niche Odysseus Slaying the Suitors | GREEK | 450 BC
Odysseus Slaying the Suitors The Odyssey John FLAXMAN 1793/1805 Athena in the Form of Penelope’s Sister Tells the Queen of the Return of Telemachus The Odyssey | John FLAXMAN | 1805 Zeus and Hebe
The Iliad | John FLAXMAN | 1793 The Choice of Hercules Joseph ADDISON, John FLAXMAN “The Choice of Hercules,” 1709 vase made by Josiah WEDGWOOD The Choice of Hercules Paolo MATTEIS | 18th C The Choice of Hercules Paolo MATTEIS | 18th C detail of ‘Happiness’ Self-Portrait at the Age of Twenty-Four
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES 1804 The Envoys of Agamemnon
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES | 1801 Virgil Reading the Aeneid to Augustus, Octavia, and Livia
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES | 1812-19 Napoleon on His Imperial Throne
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES 1804 Oedipus and the Sphinx
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES 1808 La grande Odalisque Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES | 1814 Bather
Jean-Auguste-Dominique INGRES 1808 Daedalus and Icarus
Antonio CANOVA 1779 Daedalus and Icarus
Antonio CANOVA 1779 Funerary Monument to Maria-Christina
Antonio CANOVA 1798-1805 The Great Seal Napoleon
Antonio CANOVA 1802 Leonidas at Thermopylae 1814 | Jacques-Louis DAVID Princess Borghese as Venus Victrix Antonio CANOVA | 1807 Princess Borghese as Venus Victrix Antonio CANOVA | 1807 Cupid and Psyche
Antonio CANOVA 1798-1805 Cupid and Psyche detail Antonio CANOVA | 1798-1805 The Seven Works of Mercy
1607 CARAVAGGIO Feed the Hungry 1795 | Antonio CANOVA Teach the Ignorant 1795 | Antonio CANOVA