The Styles of the Enlightenment 1750 – 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical Marie-Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun Self-Portrait with Daughter c. 1798 Aristocratic patrons Neo-Greek Neo-Renaissance Sentimental KEY IMAGE p.
Download ReportTranscript The Styles of the Enlightenment 1750 – 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical Marie-Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun Self-Portrait with Daughter c. 1798 Aristocratic patrons Neo-Greek Neo-Renaissance Sentimental KEY IMAGE p.
The Styles of the Enlightenment 1750 – 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical Marie-Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun Self-Portrait with Daughter c. 1798 Aristocratic patrons Neo-Greek Neo-Renaissance Sentimental KEY IMAGE p. 302 Neo-Classicism Those Greek ideas again (doesn’t that make this neo-neo-neo-Classicism?) ART FOR ARISTOCRATS OR REVOLUTIONARIES? Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Petit Trianon, Versailles, France 1761-4 (Louis XVI) Monticello 1770-84 THOMAS JEFFERSON Revolutionary & Neo-Classical architect Key image p. 313 University of Virginia library Similar to??? Selfportrait NeoClassical Style in painting Jacques-Louis David David, The Death of Socrates, 1787 David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784 NEO-CLASSICAL Key image p. 315 Jacques Louis David, Lictors Bring to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons, 1789 David, Death of Marat, 1793 NOT HEART vs. HEAD EMOTION vs. INTELLECT IT’S ALL EMOTIONS – IT IS A QUESTION OF WHAT KINDS OF EMOTIONS SUMMARY – 18TH CENTURY • Age of Enlightenment but not all are enlightened . . . • ART & IDEAS - 3 different styles (Rococo, genre, Neo-Classical) reflect overlapping and conflicting values of different social classes • MUSIC – Genres such as the SYMPHONY and the STRING QUARTET emerge, all emphasizing CLARITY of musical ideas and the organization of CONTRAST, as exemplified by SONATA FORM