CHAPTER 29
Europe and America:  1700 to 1800
1.  Read the chapter.  Visit the Hermitage...lavish, extraordinary and wonderful works of art!
2.  Art terms and vocabulary you should know:

Connoisseurship, composition, history painting,  historicism, formal, idealization, genre, vedute, palette, formalist, stucco, literary illustration, Neoclassicism, Rococo
 

Monticello  
3.  Ideas, issues, items for discussion:
  • See the inset on "Salon Culture," page 753.  Would you characterize these styles as "feminine?"  Why or why not?
  • What is the Grand Tour and how does it continue to influence art?  See inset on page 765.
  • How does fascination with Greek and Roman culture manifest itself in the art of the enlightenment?  See the inset on page 766 and the discussions on pages 766-769.
  • What are some of the issues of Neo-Classical and revivalist architecture?  What are the sources of influence?  See pages 770-773.
4.  Remember this art from the text:
  • Describe the artistic elements of Francois Boucher's Cupid a Captive (page 756) and Jean Honore Fragonard's The Swing (page 750).
  • View Saying Grace by Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin (see page 760) and a detail of Basin of San Marco from San Giorgio Maggiore by Antonio Canaletto (page 765).  Both depict the 18th century public "taste for naturalness."  How were these interests a reacton to the Rococo tastes of the elite?
  • Compare the two portraits, Self-Portrait by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun (page 761) and Portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheriden by Thomas Gainsborough ( page 763).  How do both paintings portray the 18th century ideals of independence and self-reliance among women?
  • Examine Oath of the Horatii by Jacques-Louis David (page 768).  What typical Neoclassical elements are present in this work and why was Neoclassicism so important at that time?
  • Compare the Pantheon (Saint-Genevieve) by architect Jacques-Germain Soufflot (see page 770) with Monticello by Thomas Jefferson (page 772). What is the source of inspiration for "Jeffersonian idealism" and how is it similar to the "Napoleonic temple of glory?"
5.  Visit these sites on the Internet for a look at the era:

    a)  View this site on the artists of the Rococo style.
    b)  Examine the art of Joshua Reynolds.
    c)  Learn all about Josiah Wedgwood, the "Father of English Pottery."
    d)  View additional history of the arts of Russia from the PBS program "The Face of Russia."

6.  Write a one page report that responds to one idea/issue/work of art from #3 or #4 above.  Send your report through the LISTSERV.  See the Schedule for date due.

See if you can answer these questions:

--Where in San Antonio do you see original 19th century idyllic American landscape painting, but not in a museum?

--Where in San Antonio do you see "revivalist" architecture?
7.  Provide a thoughtful response to someone else's report through the LISTSERV .
See the Schedule for date due.  See if you can find an image and URL for Goya's "Saturn Devouring His Children," one of his darkest pieces, and tell me what you think of it.
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