The Styles of the Enlightenment 1750 – 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical
Marie-Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun Self-Portrait with Daughter c. 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?
Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Petit Trianon, Versailles, France 1761-4 (Louis XVI)
Monticello 1770-84 THOMAS JEFFERSON Revolutionary & Neo-Classical architect Key image p. 313
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Neo- Classical Style in painting Self- portrait Neo- Classical Style in painting DAVID, Jacques-Louis Self-portrait 1794 Oil on canvas 31 7/8 x 25 1/4 in Musee du Louvre, Paris Jacques-Louis David
David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784 NEO-CLASSICAL Key image p. 315
Jacques Louis David, Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789
David, Death of Marat, 1793
NOT IT’S ALL EMOTIONS – IT IS A QUESTION OF WHAT KINDS OF EMOTIONS 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