NEOCLASSICISM
Characteristics Celebrates/imitates classical style Desire to return to “purity” of Greek/Roman style Architecture, painting, sculpture Reaction against Rococo of late 18 th century Art of the Napoleonic era
Characteristics Goes hand in hand with Enlightenment – rationality and order Not interested in nature or emotion Mainly based in France
Prominent Artists Jacques Louis-David Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres Francisco Goya Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
Jacques Louis-David French Court painter for Louis XVI Elected to National Convention during Revolution Imprisoned during Reign of Terror Became First Painter to Napoleon
Oath of Horatii
Oath of the Tennis Court
Death of Marat
Napoleon Crossing St. Bernard Pass
Marie Antoinette brought to the Guillotine
Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres French Influenced later painters like Degas and Picasso
Napoleon on his Imperial Throne
Odalisque
Francisco Goya Spanish Painted for aristocracy and royalty Court painter during French invasion but despised Napoleonic rule Did not glorify war or battle Embodied some Romanticist elements as well
Second of May 1808
Third of May 1808
Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun French Greatest woman painter of her time Husband was a painting dealer Portraits of aristocracy Marie Antoinette’s official painter Left France during Revolution Also painted in Rococo style
Portrait of Marie Antoinette
Self Portrait with Daughter
Architecture Arc de Triomphe Cathedral in Lithuania