Terms Vienna: Capital of Austrian Empire and center of Classical Music Paris: Capital of France and center of Enlightenment Art & Society
Art & Culture During the Enlightenment
Baroque Ornate, dramatic, artistic style developed in Europe in the 1550’s Rembrandt
Rococo style of 18th-century painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation
Boucher’s Fountain of Love
Boucher’s Madame Bergeret
Boucher’s Morning Coffee
Boucher’s Love Letters
Boucher’s Madame la Pompdour
Boucher’s The Flute Lesson
Boucher’s Grape Eaters
Fragonard’s Mother & Child
You are listing to Johannes Sebastian Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto
Fragonard’s If Only He Were As Faithful to Me
Fragonard’s The Captured Kiss
Fragonard’s The Stolen Kiss
Fragonard’s The Swing
Clodion’s Poetry & Music
Clodion’s Montesquieu
Clodion’s A Vestal
Clodion’s Cartelen
Gainsborough’s Mr. & Mrs. Andrews
Gainsborough’s Mrs. Howe
Gainsborough’s Sarah Siddons
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
Serves: French Royal Porcelain
English Wedgewood
John Smart’s Miniatures
French Furniture
Newton’s Tomb
Jefferson’s Monticello
Jefferson’s University of Virginia
Versailles: Temple of Love
Royal Scottish Academy
Enlightenment Art Roccoco to Neoclassical Romantic Love Classical Greek Themes Portraits – Full Size and Miniatures
Boucher’s Madame la Pompdour
Fragonard’s The Stolen Kiss
Clodion’s Montesquieu
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
English Wedgewood & French Serves
Jefferson’s Monticello
A Parisian Salon
Madame Geoffrin’s Salon
The Salonnieres Madame Geoffrin (1699-1777) Madame Suzanne Necker (1739-1794) Mademoiselle Julie de Lespinasse (1732*-1776)
Baroque Music Developed new instrumental playing techniques Established opera as musical genre
Johannes Sebastian Bach 1685-1750 Baroque Music Counterpoint: 2 or more melodies combined Fugue: instruments and/or voices play variations of same melody at same time Organ Harpsichord Brandenburg Concerto Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
The Musical Offering Violin Sonata No.1 in G Minor
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759 German Composer Messiah, “Hallelujah” chorus Inspired Beethoven and Mozart
Classical Music Had more elegant, graceful feel than Baroque Gave importance to symphony, string quartet
Classical Music Symphony- long, complex musical compositions scored for orchestras String Quartet- musical ensemble of 4 string instruments: 2 violins, a viola and a cello
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) Often called “father of the symphony and the string quartet” The Creation, The Seasons
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) Composed more than 600 works Child prodigy
Legacy of Enlightenment Democratic revolutions: America, Amsterdam, Brussels, and especially in Paris in the late 1780s Reform, democracy, and republicanism. New forms of civil society –-- clubs, salons, lending libraries, & professional organizations. Individual had come into existence as a political and social force to be reckoned with.