Ch 28 Study Guide Questions #1
1. Why was the 18th century called the “great age of the aristocracy” and how is that
reflected in the art of Rococo?
2. What different mediums are combine in the Salon de la Princesse?
3. In comparison of Rigaud’s Louis XIV with Watteau’s L’Indifferent what contrasts are
highlighted?
4. Name and explain the two contrasting doctrines dividing the French Royal Academy at
the turn of the century.
5. Explain two different views of Watteau’s Return from Cythera.
6. Explain the essential difference between the Enlightened theories of John Locke and
Jean Jaqcues Rousseau. Name one painting for the text that exemplifies each man’s
theory.
7. How does Joseph Wright’s A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery (in which a lamp
is put into place of the sun) “take on the qualities of a grand ‘history painting’?”
8. Compare and contrast Elisabeth Louis Vigee-Lebrun’s Self-Portrait with Judith Leyster’s
Self-Portrait.
9. What is “Grand Manner portraiture?” Give an example (artist/title).
10. Compare and contrast Benjamin West’s The Death of General Wolfe with Jacques-Louis
David’s Death of Marat.
11. Explain how Neoclassicism was so appealing to so different periods and patrons.
12. Why is Angelica Kauffman’s Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures
considered a Neoclassic piece?
13. Why is La Madeleine a “symbolic link between the Napoleonic and Roman empires?”
14. How does Boyle and Kent’s Chiswick House serve as a denouncement of Italian Baroque
and emulate the work of Palladio and Inigo Jones?
15. Name three building used as references by Thomas Jefferson in the design of Monticello.