The Grand Tour

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The Grand Tour
Romanticism
Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the
Air-Pump
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Grand Tour

• Wealthy students and travelers
• Enhancing classical education
• Private collections enhanced
• Profound influence on artists who traveled
• Bought paintings of cities visited

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Romanticism
Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal), Arrival of
the French Ambassador in Venice
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Romanticism
George Stubbs, Lion Attacking a Horse
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Neo-Classical
Panini, Modern Rome
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Romanticism
Joseph Wright, The Alchemist
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Romanticism
William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract
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Romanticism
Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe
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Romanticism
John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark
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Reason is the touchstone!!!

• Denis Diderot criticized Salons and their
  favoritism to Baroque and Rococo art
• Historicism
• Grand Manner
• Sublime (awe inspiring)
• Picturesque (beautiful, familiar, reassuring)
• Connoisseurship
• Landscape painting
• Composition
• Capriccio (mixture of pleasing motifs)