Spread of the Enlightenment

The Arts Paris – center of The Enlightenment  Salons – social gatherings Marie-Therese Geoffrin Denis Diderot  Encyclopedia  banned by Catholic Church

Neoclassical Style  WAS - Baroque (grand, ornate) had been in fashion  BECAME -Neoclassical Simple and elegant Borrowed from classic Greece and Rome

Music WAS – dramatic organ and choral BECAME – classical  Lighter and more elegant  Haydn  Mozart  Beethoven

Literature  Novels Plots, suspense, character thoughts and feelings  Samuel Richardson  Pamela  Henry Fleming  Tom Jones

The Monarchies Enlightened despots  Frederick the Great Prussia  Joseph II Austria  Catherine the Great Russia