1. Neoclassical Art France, England, and the United States

2. Neoclassicism PERIOD OF THE ENLIGHTENMENT Focused on principle over pleasure---as if society had overdosed on the sweets (and superficiality) of Rococo Differs from Poussin’s classicism from a century earlier--- Neoclassicism’s figures were more naturalistic and solid, less waxen and ballet-like as were Poussin’s

3. Neoclassicism VALUES: order, solemnity TONE: calm, rational SUBJECTS: Greek & Roman history, mythology (1738 Pompeii and Herculaneum excavated) TECHNIQUE: Stressed drawing with lines, not color; no trace of brushstrokes ROLE OF ART: Morally uplifting, inspirational

4. France

5. Watteau, L’Indifferent, 1716

6. David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784

7. David, Death of Marat, 1793

10. David, Coronation of Napoleon, 1805-1808

15. Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1809

18. England

19. Canova, Pauline Borghese as Venus, 1809

20. Kauffmann, Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, 1785

22. Boyle & Kent, Chiswick House, 1725, London, England

25. Wood the Younger, Royal Crescent, 1769-1775, Bath, England

30. The United States

31. Jefferson, Monticello, 1770-1806, Charlottesville, Virginia

35. Copley, Paul Revere, 1768- 1770

36. West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1771