Gardner’s Art Through the Ages,
13e
Chapter 29
Europe and America,
1700 to 1800
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Warm-up:
•Please get out your Romantic reading and notes
homework.
•While I check that-get into groups of 2 or 3-there
need to be 4 groups of 3 and two groups of 2.
•Get a packet from under this screen with information on scientists
and philosophes of the Baroque and Enlightenment periods. Read
together with your group and take some notes on the following
things: what they discovered/argued in their work/what they are
known for and how it might apply to art:
Rene Descartes
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Immanuel Kant
Voltaire
Rousseau
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Warm-up:
•Get out Ch 29 notes to take notes –I
will check your homework due Friday
and today at the end of class…..
•Get intimate for the Rococo-and
because my ear is still not working
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Art of the French Salons
• Examine the artistic expressions of salon cultural style known
as Rococo…..the WOMEN are in positions of power here…
• This is the great age of the Aristocracy….it begins with the
death of Louis XIV….
• So the aristocracy are the major patrons at this point-not the
Kings/not the church…
• The artificial is key….
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Figure 29-5 ANTOINE WATTEAU, L’Indifférent, ca.
1716. Oil on canvas, 10” x 7”. Louvre, Paris.
A glamour boy….
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Figure 29-6 ANTOINE WATTEAU, Return from Cythera, 1717. Oil on canvas, 4’ 3” x 6’ 4 1/2”. Louvre, Paris.
School of Rubens vs School of Poussin
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There is some nostalgia and kitsch
Going on here…
Figure 29-7 FRANÇOIS BOUCHER, Cupid a Captive, 1754. Oil on
canvas, 5’ 6” x 2’ 10”. The Wallace Collection, London.
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Grace and elegance become
As important as the illusion
Figure 29-8 GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO, Apotheosis of
the Pisani Family, ceiling fresco in the Villa Pisani, Stra,
Italy, 1761-1762. Fresco, 77’ 1” X 44’ 3”.
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Luxurious courtly
Style mingles with
Nature to imply
Lush sensuality…
Figure 29-1 JEAN-HONORÉ
FRAGONARD, The Swing, 1766. Oil on
canvas, approx. 2’ 8 5/8” x 2’ 2”. Wallace
Collection, London.
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Elaborate,
Decorative
Details
Adorn
Classical
Forms
And Subjects
Figure 29-9 CLODION, Satyr
Crowning a Bacchante, 1770.
Terracotta, 1’ 5/8” high. Louvre,
Paris.
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Italian Natural Taste and Tourism
• Understand the concept of the “Grand Tour” and the
expression of the “picturesque” in art.
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Figure 29-20 ANTONIO CANALETTO, Riva degli Schiavoni, Venice, ca. 1735-1740. Oil on canvas, 1’ 6 ½”
X 2’ 7/8”. Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo. City views collected as a nostalgic memory of the trip
taken…the GRAND TOUR was a part of the education of any wealthy young person in Western
world culture-and Italy was the top pick for its Classical sites….a gateway to a memory and a token
of education….
Canaletto sometimes tightened comps to fit it all in-others are completely topographically correct
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Lines are soft and curved…
Interior is beautiful and gilded…
The word “Rococo” is the French
Word for “pebble?,,,the shape of
small stone shells
Are used to decorate here as a
Recurring motif…
Figure 29-2 GERMAIN BOFFRAND, Salon
de la Princesse, with painting by CHARLESJOSEPH NATOIRE and sculpture by J. B.
LEMOINE, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, France,
1737–1740.
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Paintings, architect
Sculpture are unifie
Curving tendrils im
Nature growing in t
Room…
Everything sparkles
Is in motion…furthe
The feeling of wit a
Artificial etiquette t
Is such aPalace
part
Figure 29-3 FRANÇOIS DE CUVILLIÉS, Hall of Mirrors, the Amalienburg, Nymphenburg
park,of the
Munich, Germany, early 18th century.
Performances with
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Unity of all the arts in a c
Flow in this Rococo chur
And delicate version of B
Style…less dimensional
Hint of the natural world…
In the time of…
Figure 29-4 BALTHASAR NEUMANN, interior (top) and plan (bottom) of the pilgrimage
church of Vierzehnheiligen, near Staffelstein, Germany, 1743-1772.
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Figure 29-11 ABRAHAM DARBY III and THOMAS F. PRITCHARD, iron bridge at Coalbrookdale,
England, 1776–1779.
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Advances in engineering bring the first cast iron bridge…
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