ART H 260 * Introduction to Art History * T/R 11:40-12:55 * Spring 2005
MODERN ERA
01. Tue. 25 Jan. The Grand Tour and the Classical Tradition in Modern Art
Terms
classical
Grand Tour
memento mori
picturesque
veduta / vedute
Important figures
Johann Joachim WINKELMANN (1717-68), Superintendent of Antiquities, 1763; Geschichte der Kunst
des Alterthums, 1764
Sir Wlliam HAMILTON (1730-1803), British ambassador to Naples, Collection of Etruscan, Greek and
Roman Antiquities, 1766-76
Johann Wolfgang von GOETHE (1749-1842), Italian Journey, 1786-88; Iphigenie auf Tauris, 1787
Works
William HOGARTH (1697-1764), Analysis of Beauty, Plate I, 1753. Etching. Ithaca, New York: Herbert
F. Johnson Museum.
compare to: Apollo Belvedere, Medici Venus, Laocöon, Belvedere Torso, Farnese Hercules
Giovanni Paolo PANINI (1691-1765)
* Gallery of Views of Ancient Rome, 1758. Oil on canvas, 231 x 303 cm. Paris: Musée du Louvre.
* Gallery of Views of Modern Rome. 1758. Oil on canvas, 231 x 303 cm. Paris: Musée du Louvre.
Giuseppe VASI, Palazzi del Campidoglio. 1753. Etching, 20.2 x 32.3 cm. From Delle Magnificenze di
Roma Antica e Moderna Libro Terzo, plate 80.
Anton VON MARON, Johann Joachim Winkelmann, 1768. Oil on canvas. 136 x 99 cm. Weimar:
Kunstsammlungen.
Pietro BRACCI, Collection of cameo casts reproducing objects and architecture from the Vatican
Museum, c. 1775. White plaster. Research Library, The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles.
Louis DUCROS (1740-1810) and Giovanni Volpato (c. 1755-1803), The Cortile del Belvedere with the
Laocoön, 1787-92. Hand-colored etching. 51.5 x 72.2 cm. Munich: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek.
Sir Joshua REYNOLDS (1723-1792), Portrait of Members of the Society of Dilettanti, 1777-79. Oil on
canvas. 196.8 x 142.2 cm. London: Society of Dilettanti.
Johann Heinrich Wilhelm TISCHBEIN (1751-1829), Goethe in the Compagna, 1787. Oil on canvas.