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Rococo: The French Taste

1.Luxurious artistic expressions of salon culture which culminated in the style known as Rococo.

2.Completeness of the style, in decorations, accessories, paintings and sculpture, interiors, and architecture.

3.Extreme development of the Rococo style in Germany.

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Scientific Art of the Enlightenment•Motivation of the Enlightenment and the interest in

science and the natural world and its effect on artistic expression.

•Philosophical concepts of Voltaire as they relate to artistic expression.

•Early applications of technology and scientific advancements to art.

The Taste for the Natural•Philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in contrast to Voltaire, his interest in the ‘natural’ as opposed to the ‘artificial,’ and artistic expression of these ideas.

•Different styles of the “natural” in France, England, the United States, and in Italy.

•Choices of ‘ordinary’ life, the natural world, and sentimentality as subjects in art.

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Revival of Classicism

•Discovery of Herculaneum and Pompeii creates an interest in classical art.

•Formal elements of classical art and their revival in 19th century art and architecture.

•Neoclassical art and architecture in France, England, and in the United States.

•Adaptation of classical and mythological subject matter in Neoclassical art.

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Neoclassical Art in France

•Formal elements of classical art and their revival in 19th century.

•Adaptation of classical and mythological subject matter.

French Neoclassical Architecture•classical revival in architecture as an expression of French power and glory.

Neoclassical Art and Architecture in England

•classical elements of art and architecture, Palladian influence, and their revival in 19th century

The Neoclassical in the United States•Neoclassical as the national style in art and architecture in the United States in the early 19th century.

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From Neoclassicism to Romanticism

• Philosophical and stylistic differences between Neoclassicism and Romanticism.

• Growing interest in the exotic, the erotic, the landscape, and fictional narrative as subject matter.

• Mixture of classical form and Romantic themes, and the debates about the nature of art in the 19th century.        

• Identify artists and architects of the period and their works.

The Move toward Romanticism• how the artist Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres combined classical form with Romantic themes.

Rise of Romanticism• exotic, erotic, the landscape, and fictional narrative as subject matter.

• Understand the mixture of classical form and Romantic themes

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Drama, Action, and Color in Spanish Romanticism• issues of drama, action, and color in the art of Francisco Goya.

The French Debate: Color vs. Line•French debate over theories related to color (expression) vs. line (drawing or form) as appropriate to artistic expression.

Romantic Landscape Painting• Romantic interest in the landscape as an independent and respected genre in Germany, England, and the United States.

Romantic Revivalist Styles in Architecture• Variety of revivalist styles in architecture, the origins of the designs and their impact. Photography• Origins of photography and its impact in visual art.

• Initial uses of the new art medium known as photography.

• artists and the works of early photography.

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Venetian Pleasure 1718 - Jean-Antoine Watteau

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Portrait of Marie Antoinette | Elisabeth-Louise Vigee Le Brun, 1767

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Equestrian statue of Peter Great is situated in Senate Square

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Paolina Borghese 1804-1808, Sculpture by Antonio Canova (1757-

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John Zoffany's 1772 painting The Tribuna of the Uffizi 

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Liberty Leading the People, Eugène Delacroix, 1830

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Courbet, Gustave, A Burial at Ornans 1849-50, Oil on canvas 314 x 663 cm (10" 3 1/2" x 21' 9"); Musee d'Orsay, Paris

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Courbet, Gustave ,The Artist's Studio, oil on canvas 1855, 359 × 598 cm

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Gustave Courbet,Stone Breaker 1850, Oil on canvas, 165 cm × 257 cm

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The Gleaners by Jean François Millet, the Louvre, 1857

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Jean-Baptiste-Camille, Ville d'Avray, 1867, oil on canvas.

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Honoré Daumier, The Third-Class Carraige 1863-65 Oil on

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The horse fair | Rosa Bonheur | 1855

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Millet, The Sower, 1850,

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Hippolyte Flandrin - Theseus Recognized by his Father -

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Thomas Couture, The Romans of the Decadence, 1847 

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The Birth of Venus, 1863, Alexander Cabanel, Oil on

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Olympia, Édouard Manet, 1863 130,5 × 190 cm