AP Art History
18th Century
Four themes to consider when reviewing art from this century:
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Art as expressing enlightened taste
Art as espousing virtue
Art as expressing social criticism
Art as expressing different kinds of knowledge
Find examples from the text that you consider to be a clear example of each of these
QUESTION: Which works of art do not easily fit within a single label? Why?
Rococo (the “Age of Louis XV” in France)
1. Balthasar Neumann, Church of the Fourteen Saints (the pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen, 1743-72.
Near Staffelstein, Germany
2. Jean-Antoine Watteau, Return from Cythera. 1717. o/c, 4’ x 6’, Louvre
3. Francois Boucher, Triumph of Venus. 1740. o/c, 4’ x 5’ Stockholm
Cupid a Captive, 1754. o/c 5’6” x 2’10”, Wallace Collection, London
4. Jean-Honore Fragonard, The Meeting from The Love of Shepherds. 1771-1773. o/c 10’ x 7’, Frick
Collection, New York
The Swing, 1766. o/c, 2’9” x 2’2”, Wallace Collection, London
5. Clodion, Satyr Crowning a Bacchante. Rococo sculpture, 1770. Terracotta, no q-card needed here
The Period of the Enlightenment and Early Industrial Revolution
1. Joseph Wright, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, ca. 1763-65. o/c, 4’10” x 6’8”, Derby
Museums and Art Gallery
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air-Pump. 1768. o/c 6’ x 8’, National Gallery, London
2. Abraham Darby III and Thomas Pritchard, Coalbrookedale Bridge. IRON bridge, 1776-79
3. Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Saying Grace, 1740. o/c, 1’7” x 1’3”, Louvre, Paris
The Governess. 1739. o/c, 18’ x 14’, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
4. Jean-Baptiste Greuze, Village Bride, 1761. o/c, 3’ x 3’10”, Louvre, Paris
5. Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun, Self-Portrait, 1790. o/c, 8’4” x 6’9”, Uffizi, Florence.
Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children. 1787. o/c, 9’ x7’, Versailles
6. Adelaide Labille-Guiard, Self-Portrait with Two Pupils. 1785. o/c, 7’ x 5’, Met NYC
7. William Hogarth, The Marriage Contract from Marriage a la Mode. 1743-1745. o/c, National Gallery,
London
The Breakfast Scene
8. Thomas Gainsborough, Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785-7, o/c 7’ x 5’ National Gallery,
Washington DC
The Blue Boy
9. Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lord Heathfield, 1787. o/c, 4’8” x 3’9”, National Gallery, London
Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces. 1765. o/c, 8’ x 5’, Art Institute of Chicago
10. Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe. 1770. o/c, 4’ x 7’, The national Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
11. John Singleton Copley, Samuel Adams, c. 1770-72. o/c. 50” x 40”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Watson and the Shark. 1778. o/c 6’ x 7’ National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Neoclassicism (the “ Age of Louis XVI in France)
1. Angelica Kaufmann, Cornelia Pointing to her children as Her Treasures, c. 1785. o/c, 40” x 50”, Virginia
Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
2. Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii. 1784-7. o/c, 10’ x 14’, Louvre
David, Death of Marat, 1793. o/c, 5’ x 4’, Musees Royaux des Beaux-Arts de Belgique, Brussels
3. Jacques-Germain Soufflot, Pantheon, 1755-92, Paris, France
4. Richard Boyle, Lord Burlington, Chiswick House, London, 1724-29
5. Thomas Jefferson, Monticello, Charlottesville, VA 1769-82, 1796-1809
6. Jean-Antoine Houdon, George Washington. 1788-92, marble 6’ State Capitol, Richmond, VA
7. Antonio Canova, Cupid and Psyche.1787-93, marble 6’ x 7’, Louvre
TERMS
Chinoiserie
Fetes Galante
pastel
Arabesques
hotels
genre pittoresque (picturesque style)
Enlightenment
The Grand Tour
Prix de Rome
Giovanni Paulo Panini and Canaletto
salons
Royal Academy of Art 1768