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Art in the Modern World Art in the Modern World A U G U S T I N E C O L L E G E 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 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 Denis DIDEROT Encyclopedia Woman Cleaning Turnips 1738 Jean-Baptiste-Siméon CHARDIN Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna 1640s | Matthias STOMER Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna 1650 | Bernardo CAVALLINO Mucius Scaevola Confronting King Porsenna 1643 | Charles LE BRUN The Academy of the artist Piazzetta | 18th C Exhibition of the Royal Academy, London 1787 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 Self-portrait Jean-Baptiste GREUZE circa 1770 Benjamin Franklin The Head of the Family Reading the Bible to His Children 1777 1755 Jean-Baptiste GREUZE 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 The Broken Eggs detail 1756 Jean-Baptiste GREUZE Self-portrait Jacques-Louis DAVID 1794 The Combat of Mars and Minerva 1771 | Jacques-Louis DAVID Belisarius Receiving Alms 1781 Jacques-Louis DAVID The Oath of the Horatii 1784 | Jacques-Louis DAVID The Death of Camilla preparatory sketch | 1781 | Jacques-Louis DAVID The Oath of the Horatii detail 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 The Death of Marat Jacques-Louis DAVID 1793 Jean-Paul Marat Jean-François GARNERAY before 1793 The Death of Marat | detail The Death of Marat | detail The Death of Marat detail Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery 1784 | Jean-Germain DROUAIS Young Woman Drawing 1801 Marie-Denise VILLERS The Death of Wolfe Benjamin WEST | 1770 Josiah WEDGWOOD Apotheosis of Homer | 1786 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 Funerary Monument to Maria-Christina Antonio CANOVA 1798-1805 The Great Seal Feed the Hungry 1795 | Antonio CANOVA Teach the Ignorant 1795 | Antonio CANOVA Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) 1679 Jules HARDOUIN- MANSART Château de Versailles 1669-85 Galerie des Glaces (Hall of Mirrors) | 1679 | Jules HARDOUIN- MANSART Salon Oval of the Hôtel de Soubise, Paris DELEMAIRE and BOFFRAND 1740 Saline-de-Chaux Claude-Nicolas LEDOUX 1775-79 Saline-de-Chaux 1775-79 | Claude-Nicolas LEDOUX Saline-de-Chaux Claude-Nicolas LEDOUX 1775-79 Newton Cenotaph | Interior section | not realized Etienne-Louis BOULLEE | 1784 Newton Cenotaph | exterior | not realized Etienne-Louis BOULLEE | 1784 Bibliothèque nationale, Paris | not realized | Etienne-Louis BOULLEE | 1785 The Artist Overcome by the Grandeur of Ancient Ruins 1778-79 Henry FUSELI Church of the Madeleine (Mary Magdalen), Paris | Pierre VIGNON | 1808 Ludwigskirche-Darmstadt | Georg MOLLER | 1820-27 Ludwigskirche-Darmstadt | Georg MOLLER | 1820-27 Glyptothek, Munich Leo von KLENZE Walhalla Bavaria Leo von KLENZE 1830-42 Walhalla Bavaria Leo von KLENZE 1830-42 Walhalla Leo von KLENZE 1830-42 Bavaria Monticello Charlottesville, Virginia Thomas JEFFERSON 1778-84 Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 1788-91 | Karl Gotthard LANGHANS Brandenburg Gate, Berlin 1788-91 | Karl Gotthard LANGHANS Arc-de-Triomphe, Paris 1806 CHALGRIN and RAYMOND Moscow Gate, St. Petersburg 1834-38 | Vasily Petrovich STASOV Moscow Gate, St. Petersburg 1834-38 | Vasily Petrovich STASOV .
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