Enlightenment Ideas Spread Section 2 Enlightenment Ideas Spread
APWH Themes: 2 – Development & Interaction of Cultures 5 – Development & Interaction of Social Structures Essential Questions: How did ideas spread during the Enlightenment and who did they mostly affect? What is an Enlightened Despot? What effects were felt in the world of arts and culture?
Benjamin Franklin 1706-1790
The Salon of Madame Geoffrin
Frederick II, “The Great” of Prussia (r. 1740-1786)
Music at Sans Souci , Frederick the Great’s Summer Palace
Frederick the Great with Voltaire
Catherine the Great of Russia (r. 1762-1796)
Joseph II of Prussia, “The Peasant Emperor” HRE 1765-1790
Baroque Art and Architecture Bernini’s Coronaro Chapel
Bernini’s Ecstasy of St. Theresa
Versailles's Hall of Mirrors
Interior of a German Castle
Gentilischi’s Judith and her Servant Slaying Holofernes
Rembrandt’s The Blinding of Samson
Sans Souci
Rococo Art and Architecture
Ver Meer’s The Milkmaid
Rembrandt’s Self Portrait at age 23
Rembrandt’s The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Tulp
Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
George Frideric Handel 1685-1759
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart 1756-1791
Joseph II with Mozart
Daniel Defoe 1660?-1731