The 18th century
Vocabulary
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Rococo
Académie Royale
Hôtel
Salon
Fête Galante
The Enlightenment
Philosophes
Empirical
Exemplum Virtutis
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Neoclassical
Reign of Terror
Jacobins
Girondins
Hyacinthe Rigaud,
King Louis XIV,
France, 1701
•Bâtiments du roi
•1648 Académie RoyaleHierarchy of
painting:History, Religion,
Mythology, Portraiture,
Decorative works, Genre
scenes, Still-life
Charles Le Brun, Louis Le Vau, and Jules
Hardouin-Mansart, Palace of Versailles,
France, 1669-85
Le Hammeau (1770)
Marie Antoinette
Hall of Mirrors, Versailles
•Hôtel
•Salon
Germain Boffrand, Hôtel de Soubise,
Paris, 1737-40
Madame de
Pompadour
Mistress of King Louis XV
François
Boucher
Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to the Island of
•Fête Galante
Cythera, France, 1717-19
François
Boucher,
Venus at her
Bath,
France, 1751
Jean-Honoré
Fragonard,
The Swing,
France, 1766
•Philosophes
•Empirical
Joseph Wright of Derby, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the
Orrery, England, 1763-65
Joseph Wright of Derby, An Experiment on a
Bird in an Air-pump, England, 1768
Jean-BaptisteSiméon Chardin,
Grace at Table,
France, 1740
•Exemplum virtutis
Jean-BaptisteSiméon Chardin,
Grace at Table,
France, 1740
•Exemplum virtutis
Elizabeth
Louise VigéeLeBrun,
MarieAntoinette en
Chemise,
France, 1783
Angelica Kauffmann, The Mother of the
Gracchi, Swiss, Neo-Classicism, 1785
Vigée-LeBrun,
Marie
Antoinette and
her Children
(at Versailles),
French, 1787
Adélaide LabilleGuiard,
Self-portrait with
Two Pupils,
France, 1785
Neoclassicism
• Artists, architects, potters, and even
furniture makers drew much inspiration
from Pompeii.
• Contemporary painted interiors were
inspired by the frescoed walls found in the
excavations.
Neoclassicism and the French Revolution
• June 11, 1775: Coronation of Louis XVI
• July 4, 1776: American Declaration of
Independence
• July 14, 1789: storming of the Bastille
• August 27, 1789: Declaration of the Rights
of Man and the Citizen
Jacques-Louis
David, Oath of
the Horatii,
French, NeoClassicism,
1784
Prix de Rome
• The goal of every Academy student was to
win the premier student prize:
The Prix de Rome
• David took part in the competition every
year starting in 1770.
David, Marie
Antoinette on the way
to the Guillotine, 1793
•June 20, 1791: Louis XVI
and Marie Antoinette
unsuccessfully flee France
for Austria
•September 22, 1792:
Declaration of the Republic
of France, abolition of the
Monarchy
•January 21, 1793:
Beheading of King Louis
XVI
Jacques-Louis
David,
Death of
Marat,
1793
•1793: Jacobin Reign of
Terror, Committee of
Public Safety
•July 13, 1794:
Assassination of Marat by
Girondin, Charlotte
Corday
Pierre Vignon, La Madeleine, Paris, French, 1807-42
The Parthenon, Athens, Greece, 437-432 BCE
Jacques-Louis David,
The Coronation of Napoleon, 1808
•December 24, 1799:
Dictatorship established
under Napoleon
•August 2, 1802:
Napoleon declared First
Consul for life
•December 2, 1808:
Napoleon crowns himself
Emperor of France
How big is it? [17 x 30 ft.]
Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Virginia, 1770-1806
The Pantheon, Rome, 118 AD
• Jefferson drew the plans for the Virginia State
Capitol Building in Richmond as an almost exact
copy of the Maison Carree.
• Almost all of the rest of American governmental
buildings, including Washington, D. C., followed
the example that Jefferson had set
Ingres, Grande Odalisque, 1814, France
• In breaking with his teacher David, Ingres
adopted a manner that he felt was based
on true and pure Greek style. List two
characteristics of that style:
Grande Odalisque in an Ad