The Styles of the Enlightenment

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The Styles of the Enlightenment
1750 1820 Rococo Bourgeois Neo-Classical
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Marie-Elisabeth-LouiseVigée-LebrunSelf-Portrait
with Daughterc. 1798
Aristocratic patrons Neo-Greek Neo-Renaissance Sen
timental KEY IMAGE p. 302
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Neo-Classicism
Those Greek ideas again (doesnt that make this
neo-neo-neo-Classicism?)
ART FOR ARISTOCRATS OR REVOLUTIONARIES?
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Ange-Jacques Gabriel, Petit Trianon, Versailles,
France 1761-4 (Louis XVI)
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Monticello 1770-84
THOMAS JEFFERSON Revolutionary Neo-Classical
architect
Key image p. 313
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University of Virginia library
Similar to???
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Self-portrait
Neo-Classical Style in painting
Jacques-Louis David
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David, The Death of Socrates, 1787
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David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
NEO-CLASSICAL
Key image p. 315
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Jacques Louis David, Lictors Bring to Brutus the
Bodies of His Sons, 1789
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David, Death of Marat, 1793
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NOT
HEART vs. HEAD EMOTION vs. INTELLECT
ITS ALL EMOTIONS IT IS A QUESTION OF WHAT
KINDS OF EMOTIONS
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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