1. The Styles of the Enlightenment
1750 – 1820
Rococo
Bourgeois
Neo-Classical

2. The Enlightenment ?1688-1789? A radical movement in philosophy –
1688 – “Glorious Revolution” in England
1789 – French Revolution
A radical movement in philosophy –
atheist or deist
Rationalist with an Ancient Roman flair
An age of CRITICISM: “religion is superstition”
ideas not always reflected in all of the arts

3. Sapere aude! “DARE TO KNOW!” – Kant (don’t just “believe”)
“Every sensible man, every honorable man, must hold the Christian sect in horror.” – Voltaire
quotes from pp. 296, 295

4. ROCOCO The softer side of Baroque (or a reaction against it)
ornamental
sentimental
sensuous
(trivial)
Audience? ARISTOCRACY

5. Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera, 1717, p. 293

6. Fragonard, The Swing, 1769
KEY IMAGE
p. 301

7. Jean Honore Fragonard, The Bathers, 1761

8. Boucher
“His canvases often seem to consist of little beyond mounds of pink flesh . . .”

9. Francois Boucher, The Toilet of Venus, 1751 p. 299

10. Boucher, Allegory of Music, 1752

11. Boucher, Odalisk, 1745

12. Boucher, Shepherd and Shepherdess, 1761

13. Schönbrunn Palace, Vienna – Rococo!!!
Originally called the Feketin Cabinet, this room became known as the Millions Room on account of its precious rosewood panelling. Sixty-one Rococo cartouches contain Indo-Persian miniatures showing scenes from the private or court life of the Mughal rulers in India in the 16th and 17th centuries. In order to fit the miniatures into the asymmetrical shapes of the cartouches, individual leaves were cut up by members of the imperial family and put together to form new pictures in a sort of collage. Especially remarkable is the chandelier, a piece of Viennese craftsmanship dating to 1760, made of bronze with enamelled flowers. The bust behind the settee is of Maria Theresa's youngest daughter, Marie Antoinette, later Queen of France
Copyright
Schloß Schönbrunn Kultur- und Betriebsges.m.b.H.
Photographerehem. Archiv SHS

14. Balthasar Neumann Vierzehnheiligen, 1743-72
Rococo p. 304

15. The Bourgeois Style: Genre Painting
Art for the earnest middle classes
(and the aristocracy, too)

16. Genre painting –
A type of painting showing scenes from everyday life and surroundings.
The term also refers to the various types of subject matter: history, portraiture, landscape, still life, and flower painting. (Thus “genre painting” is a genre of painting!)
See glossary.

17. Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (1699-1779) self-portrait, 1771, pastel
"We use colors, but we paint with our feelings."
Self-Portrait Pastel Musée du Louvre, Paris

18. Chardin The Prayer before Meal 1744, Oil on canvas, 50 x 38.5 cm
charm
simplicity
subtle moralizing tone
The Prayer before Meal 1744 Oil on canvas, 50 x 38,5 cm The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
not in text; compare fig , p. 307

19. p. 307

20. CHARDIN, Jean Baptiste Simeon The Silver Goblet 13 x 16 1/4" (33 x 41 cm) The Silver Tureen c x 42 1/2 in. A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils aka The Meat-day Meal 1731
CHARDIN, Jean Baptiste Simeon The Silver Goblet Oil on canvas 13 x 16 1/4" (33 x 41 cm) Musee du Louvre, Paris
CHARDIN, Jean Simeon The Silver Tureen c Oil on canvas 30 x 42 1/2 in. (76.2 x 108 cm) The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A "Lean Diet" with Cooking Utensils 1731 Oil on canvas 13 x 16 1/4" (33 x 41 cm) Musee du Louvre, Paris

21. Hogarth, William Gin Lane 1750 Etching and engraving 14 1/16 x 11 3/4 in
MORALIZING
Compare to p. 318,
The Marriage Contract

23. Marie-Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun Self-Portrait with Daughter c. 1798
Aristocratic patrons
Neo-Greek
Neo-Renaissance
Sentimental
KEY IMAGE p. 302