Culture of the Enlightenment

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Culture of the Enlightenment
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1. Art architecture

• a. Rococo
• emphasized grace and gentle action
• It was highly secular
• rejected strict geometric patterns
• fondness for curves
• worked well with baroque architecture
• 1. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) portraits
  of aristocratic life

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The Pilgrimage to Cythera
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La Gamme d'Amour
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Les Champs-Elysées
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2. Johann Balthasar Neumann Church of the
Vierzenheiligen
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Residenz - kaiserkaal
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b. Neoclassicism

• Still prevalent in some places
• classical style themes
• 1) Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) numerous
  themes from Greek and Roman history

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Oath of the Horatii
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Andromache Mourning Hector
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The Death of Socrates
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Bonaparte Crossing the St. Bernard Pass
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Consecration of the Emperor Napoleon I and
Coronation of the Empress Josephine in the
Cathedral of Notre-Dame de Paris on 2 December
1804
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Death of Murat
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Portrait of Marie-Françoise Buron the Artist's
Cousin
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2. Music
a. Baroque - Opera, oratorio, sonata, the
concerto, and the symphony 1) Johann Sebastian
Bach (1685-1750) 2) George Frederick Handel
(1685-1759) a) Messiah b. Classical era
(1750-1830) 1) Franz Joseph Haydn
(1732-1809) a) The Creation The Seasons 2)
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) a) The
Marriage of Figaro b) Don Giovanni c) The
Magic Flute
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3. The novel a. Samuel Richardson
(1689-1761) Pamela or, Virtue Rewarded 4.
High Culture a. Spectator 5. Education a.
Realschule 6. Medicine II. Religion in the
Churches A. Church-state relations 1. The
Jesuits B. Toleration and the Jews 1. Joseph
II Toleration Patent of 1781 C. Pietism 1.
Count Nikolaus von Zinzendorf (1700-60) 2. John
Wesley (1703-91) a. Methodist church
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