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NEOCLASSICISM
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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
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Characteristics Goes hand in hand with Enlightenment – rationality and order Not interested in nature or emotion Mainly based in France
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Prominent Artists Jacques Louis-David Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres Francisco Goya Elizabeth Vigee Le Brun
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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
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Oath of Horatii
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Oath of the Tennis Court
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Death of Marat
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Napoleon Crossing St. Bernard Pass
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Marie Antoinette brought to the Guillotine
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Jean-Auguste-Dominque Ingres French Influenced later painters like Degas and Picasso
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Napoleon on his Imperial Throne
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Odalisque
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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
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Second of May 1808
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Third of May 1808
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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
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Portrait of Marie Antoinette
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Self Portrait with Daughter
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Architecture Arc de Triomphe Cathedral in Lithuania
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