1. OPERATION URGENT FURY II

2. Wednesday 4/13/16 The Tete a Tete, from Marriage a la Mode
A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery
Monticello
The Oath of the Horatii
George Washington – Houdon
The Death of Marat

3. 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH PAINTING: SATIRICAL PAINTING
Social criticism/satire
Painting were transferred to prints for mass production
Free expression
Criticism of political corruption, contemporary lifestyles -> sort of the first political cartoons

4. (#98) THE TETE A TETE, FROM MARRIAGEE A LA MODE
William Hogarth, The Tete a Tete from Marriage a la Mode, c. 1743, oil on canvas
One of six scenes in suite of paintings called Marriage a la Mode
Narrative paintings; later turned into a series of prints
Highly satiric paintings about aristocratic English society
This scene shows the couple shortly after marriage -> each pursuing pleasure without the other

5. 18TH CENTURY ENGLISH PAINTING:
Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
Scientific inquiry and empirical observation
Apply reason to the social world
Leads into the Industrial Revolution of the mid to late 18th century in England
“dare to know”
Reason, hope, progress, natural rights

6. (#100) A PHILOSOPHER GIVING A LECTURE ON THE ORRERY
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery, , oil on canvas
Influenced by the meeting of provincial group of intellectuals called the Lunar Society
Popularization of science
Orrery = early form of a planetarium
Lamp in center is the sun
Mixed group of middle class people
Philosopher pauses for note taker to catch up -> young audience dazzled by science
Inspired buy Caravaggio’s use of tenebrism

7. NEOCLASSICAL ARCHITECTURE:
Revision of classical principles onto a modern framework
Influenced by the Renaissance architect Palladio who was influenced by the Roman architect Vitruvius
Symmetry, balance, composition, and order
Columns, capitals, pediments, domes, etc.

8. (#102-1) MONTICELLO
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, , brick, glass, stone, and wood, Charlottesville, Virginia
Chief building on Jefferson’s plantation
Octagonal dome
Brick building, stucco applied to trim to give the effect of marble
Tall French doors and window to allow circulation in hot Virginia summers

9. (#102-2) MONITCELLO: PLAN
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, , brick, glass, stone, and wood, Charlottesville, Virginia
Symmetrical interior
Appears to be one-story with a dome, but the balustrade hides the second floor
Inspired by Palladian villas in Italy
“Little mountain” in Italian

10. NEOCLASSICAL PAINTING:
Symmetrical
Classical subjects
Clarity of detail
18th century
Influenced by the excavation of Pompeii and Herculaneum -> Greco-Roman is hip!, but tough and noble

11. (#103) THE OATH OF THE HORATII
Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii, 1784, oil on cavas
Exemplum virtutis = a painting that tells a moral tell for the viewer
Story of three Roman brothers pledging fidelity to their father and to Rome
Forms are vigorous, powerful, animated, emphatic
Figures pushed to the foreground

12. Angelica Kauffman, Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures, 1785
Illustration of ancient Roman Republican civic virture -> “virtutas painting”
Children and family more important than wealth and jewelry

13. Jacques-Louis David, Death of Marat
David will be a key painter of neo-classicism
Advocate of tough minded democratic and civic values
Will be a propagandist for both the French Revolution and Napoleon
The revolutionary journalist Jean-Paul Marat murdered in his bathtub by the counter- revolutionary Charlotte Corday
Vision of the secular martyr -> he died the Revolution

14. NEOCLASSICAL SCULPTURE:
Continuance of an ancient tradition
Preferred white marble
Classicism
Realism – modern day garb
Updating and copying the ancients

15. (#104) GEORGE WASHINGTON
Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington, , marble, State Capitol at Richmond, Virginia
Washington dressed as an 18th century gentleman
Both civilian and military aspects -> both sword and plow
The Society of Cincinattus -> inspired by the Roman Republic
Leaning on the Roman fasces with thirteen rods bound together
Political propaganda/equating the early republic with the virtue of the Roman Republic