3.4 Flashcards
rococo
- 18th and 17th
- affected decoration and architecture
- VIP: : Antoine Watteau ( Pilgrimage to Cythera and Return from Cythera)
- stressed grace and gentle action
- liked curves
- highly secular
baroque period
- stressed majesty, power and movement
- liked geometrical patterns
Baroque-Rococo
- as other people copied Versailles they modeled it after the Italian Baroque instead of French classical style
- 18th
- VIP: Balthasar Neumann ( pilgrimage church of Vierzehnheiligen and bishop’s palace/ Residenz)
Neoclassicism
- 18th and french
- key figure were depicted as classical heroes
- works showed classical virtues of self-sacrifice and devotion to state
- liked the simplicity, restraint, and symmetry of classical style of greece and rome
- VIP: Jacques-Louis David (oath of horatii)
Music in the 17th and 18th century
opera, oratorio, sonata, concerto, symphony
- musicians depended on rich person or patron
- Italy and Germany were leaders
- VIP: Bach and Handel
Johann Sebastian Bach
- German, with a quiet local life
- work: Saint matthew’s passion and cantatas and motets
- saw music as a means to worship God
Handel
- German
- wrote music for large public audiences
- was secular
- wrote operas
- well known for religious music; Messiah
Classical Era of Music
- musical center changed to Austrian Empire
- VIP: Haydn and Mozart
Haydn
- wrote for hungarian princes then went to england and saw that they were writing for public courts
- prolific
- austrian
Mozart
- child prodigy
- prolific
- composed with melody, grace, precision and emotion
The Novel
-8th century
-came from 16th century, medieval times
used for fictional writings
-VIP: Samuel Richardson and Henry Fielding
Samuel Richardson
his book (Pamela or Virtue Rewarded) got his a large audience because he appealed to the growing interest of sensibility and sentiment and emotional
Henry Fielding
- in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, he showed the real English society and emphasized action rather than inner feeling
- he was teaching a moral lesson through the hypocrisy of his age
writings of history by philosophes
- because of secular orientation, they eliminated the role of God in history and looked for actual causes
- paid attention to economic, social, intellectual, cultural, political developments
- weakness was that they wanted to change society and used history to do this
- VIP: Edward Gibbon
writing by humanists
- did not remove God with the same intensity as philosophes
- emphasized politics
Edward Gibbon
- book: The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
- believed the growth of Christianity caused Rome’s fall