1. You Say You Want A Revolution? Arts and the Enlightenment

2. Meet Miguel de Cervantes

3. Miguel de Cervantes wrote the first modern novel in the early 1600s The book is called Don Quixote de la Mancha It is a humorous tale of an aging man who is stuck in the myths of the past Meet Cervantes - the great novelist of the 1600s

4. When someone carries on foolishly - not recognizing the realities of life - they are acting like Don Quixote someone who is foolishly tilting at windmills

5. It is a story of a new world rejecting the legends of hte old for a reality based on science

6. What about art?

7. Meet Edward Delacroix

8. Edward Delacroix Glorifying the French Revolution

9. What about music?

10. What you know as classical music was quite dramatic and unsettling back in the time of the Enlightenment. It wasn’t at all what people were use to....

11. Meet Johann Sebastian Bach

12. Johann Sebastian Bach German musician Invented Baroque music Known for the use of the organ in compositions

13. Meet Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

14. Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is considered one of the most brilliant men of his century. Mozart almost single handily created the piano concerto. He was a genius. His famous works include The Magic Flute and The Marriage of Figaro

15. Meet Stravinsky

16. Stravinsky He isn’t one of the Enlightenment artists but in the early 1900s he really pushed the boundaries of what was defined as music...

17. Stravinsky His Rite of Spring was a ballet about pagan Russia. It was first shown in Paris in May 29, 1913. It was so discordant and disturbing and so unlike anything the audience had ever imagined that it caused a riot Today it is one of the most popular pieces performed.

18. Much like today’s artists, the artists of the Enlightenment period challenged the accepted ideas of society.