APAH Study Guide #22 CH. 29 Later 18th Century Styles
Later 18th Century “Sensibilities”
CONTEXT: HISTORY: 18th Century in Northern Europe: The Art of the Enlightenment
1.
Escapism
2.
The Grand Tour
3.
Antiquarianism
4.
Rise of the Academies
5.
6.
Science in the Age of
Enlightenment
Political Commentary
7.
Portraiture
The pursuit of happiness and the pursuit of love
Rococo painting and acrhitecture
Beginning in Paris, then the south of France, then Italy, ending in
Rome
Picturesque- The Grand Tour paintings of Canaletto’s Venice
1709-Discovery of Herculaneum
1748-Discovery of Pompeii
The writings on aesthetics and art by Geothe (Thoughts on the
Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and the Present)
Romanticized view of the past in Piranesi 1691-1765
Royal French Academy and British Royal Academy
The Salons- yearly shows put on by the Academies, juried by senior
members of the Academy
“Dare to Know” Kant 1784
Naturalism- 18th century genre painting of Chardin
Sturn und Drang
Political reportage of Hogarth / storm clouds on the horizon
The Grand Style
Pre-Revolutionary and Industrial Revolution swan song
Reynolds and Gainsborough
The Age of Enlightenment: Writers and Philosophers
Voltaire
Rousseau
Diderot
Goethe
Kant
Wincklemann
Painters:
Tiepolo
Watteau
Fragonard
Architects:
Neumann
von Erlach
Weilkirche
Sculptors:
Pigalle
Houdon
Clodion
Boucher
Vigee-leBrun
Chardin
Hogarth