AP ART HISTORY
Chapter 29: Europe and America 1700-1800
Study Guide
Name_________________________
Describe the Rococo style.
How does Watteau’s L’Indifferent compare to the Portrait of Louis XIV by Rigaud?
Color:
Form:
Pose of the figure:
Four characteristics of Watteau’s Return from Cythera that are typical of Rococo art in general
are:
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2.
3.
4.
Three Baroque devices used by Boucher in Cupid a Captive are:
1.
2.
3.
How does Fragonard’s The Swing typify a Rococo “intrigue” Picture?
What about Clodion’s Satyr Crowning a Bacchante classifies it as a Rococo sculpture and not a
Baroque sculpture?
Explain what the Age of the Enlightenment means.
How did this movement influence art?
Two ways in which European art was changed as a result of the scientific and technological
advances made from the end of the eighteenth through the early Nineteenth centuries are:
1.
2.
How does Joseph Wright of Derby’s Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery reflect the scientific
view of the universe?
Describe how Chardin’s paintings veer away from Rococo sensibility.
Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun specialized in ______________________ paintings.
What type of subject matter did Hogarth portray?
Gainsborough preferred to paint landscapes, but he is best known for his
_______________________.
To what genre do Gainsborough’s portraits belong?
How does Copley’s portrait of Paul Revere differ from contemporary British and continental
portraits?
What is a vedute painting and who was a leading painter of this genre?
The discovery of what two cities stimulated the fascination with Classical art?
1.
2.
The theme of Angelica Kauffmann’s Mother of the Gracchi differs from similar themes of the work
of Hogarth and Greuze in that her work…
Describe the politics behind David’s Death of Marat.
Two buildings that influenced Jefferson’s designs for Monticello are:
1.
2.
Explain why Jefferson believed the neoclassical style was appropriate for the architecture of
the new American Republic.