The Styles of the Enlightenment
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The Styles of the Enlightenment1750 – 1820
Rococo
Bourgeois
Neo-Classical
1750 – 1820
Rococo
Bourgeois
Neo-Classical
Marie-Elisabeth-LouiseVigée-LebrunSelf-Portrait with Daughterc. 1798
Aristocratic patrons
Neo-Greek
Neo-Renaissance
Sentimental
KEY IMAGE p. 302
Neo-Classicism
Those Greek ideas again
(doesn’t that make this neo-neo-neo-Classicism?)
ART FOR ARISTOCRATS OR REVOLUTIONARIES?ART FOR ARISTOCRATS OR REVOLUTIONARIES?
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Petit Trianon, Versailles, France 1761-4 (Louis XVI)
Monticello 1770-84
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Revolutionary & Neo-Classical architect
THOMAS JEFFERSON
Revolutionary & Neo-Classical architect
Key image p. 313
Similar to???
University of Virginia library
Self-portrait
Jacques-Louis David
Neo-Classical
Style in painting
David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
NEO-CLASSICALKey image p. 315
Jacques Louis David, Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789
David, Death of Marat, 1793
NOT
HEART vs. HEAD
EMOTION vs. INTELLECT
IT’S ALL EMOTIONS – IT IS A QUESTION OF WHAT KINDS OF EMOTIONS
SUMMARY – 18TH CENTURY
• Age of Enlightenment but not all are enlightened . . .
• ART & IDEAS - 3 different styles (Rococo, genre, Neo-Classical) reflect overlapping and conflicting values of different social classes
• MUSIC – Genres such as the SYMPHONY and the STRING QUARTET emerge, all emphasizing CLARITY of musical ideas and the organization of CONTRAST, as exemplified by SONATA FORM
• Age of Enlightenment but not all are enlightened . . .
• ART & IDEAS - 3 different styles (Rococo, genre, Neo-Classical) reflect overlapping and conflicting values of different social classes
• MUSIC – Genres such as the SYMPHONY and the STRING QUARTET emerge, all emphasizing CLARITY of musical ideas and the organization of CONTRAST, as exemplified by SONATA FORM