Barron's: Chapter 19 - Rococo and Neoclassicism

Question 1

Essential Knowledge

Answer 1

• the late eighteenth century is known as the Enlightenment, a period of scientific advance. it is followed by the revolutionary principles of the Romantic period
• new philosophies, particularly those by Marx and Darwin, spread throughout the world. these views were supplemented by a new understandings of worldwide cultures
• modern movement include neoclassicism and romanticism
• artists belong to academies and show their work in salons
• architecture is characterized by a series of revivals
• the salons of Paris grow in importance
• artists work less in the service of religion, more for corporations

Question 2

The Swing

Answer 2

• Jean-Honore Fragonard
• 1767
• oil on canvas
• Wallace Collection, London
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Individual, Status, and Society
  
  • Augustus of Primaporta
  • Sin Sukju
  • Mblo

Question 3

Time Period

Answer 3

• Rococo: 1700-1750 and beyond

- Neoclassicim: 1750-1815

Question 4

Self-Portrait

Answer 4

• Louise Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
• 1790
• oil on canvas, Uffizi, Florence
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Individual, Status, and Society
  
  • Augusts of Primaporta
  • Sin Sukju
  • Mblo

Question 5

The Tete a Tete from Mariage a la Mode

Answer 5

• William Hogarth
• c. 1743
• oil on canvas
• National Gallery, London
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Personal Relationships
  
  • van Eyck, Arnolfini Portrait
  • Veranda post
  • Sultan Muhammad, Court of the Gayumars

Question 6

A Philosopher Giving a Lecture on the Orrery

Answer 6

• Joseph Wright of Derby
• 1763-1765
• oil on canvas
• Derby Museum and Art Gallery, Derby, U.K.
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Knowledge
  
  • Bichitr, Jahangir Preferring a Sufi Sheikh to Kings
  • Cabrera, Portrait of Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz

Question 7

Monticello

Answer 7

• Thomas Jefferson
• 1768-1806
• brick, glass, stone, and wood
• Charlottesville, Virginia
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comarisons: Classical Revival
  
  • Houdon, George Washington
  • Donatello, David
  • Alberti, Palazzo Rucellai

Question 8

The Oath of the Horatti

Answer 8

• Jacques-Louis David
• 1784
• oil on canvas
• Louvre, Paris
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Historicism
  
  • Rivera, Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in the Alameda Park
  • Shonibare, The Swing
  • Sherman, Untitled

Question 9

George Washington

Answer 9

• Jean-Antoine Houdin
• 1788-1792
• marble
• State Capitol, Richmond, Virginia
• Neoclassicism/Rococo
• Cross-Cultural Comparisons: Rulers
  
  • Menkaura and His Queen
  • Lindauer, Tamati Waka Nene
  • Augustus of Prima Porta

Question 10

academy

Answer 10

• an institution whose main objectves include training artists in an academic tradition, ennobling the profesison, and holding exhibitions

Question 11

exemplum virtutis

Answer 11

• a painting that tells a moral tale for the viewer

Question 12

fete galante

Answer 12

• an eighteenth-century french style of painting that depicts the aristocracy walking through a forested landscape

Question 13

grand tour

Answer 13

• in order to complete their education young Englishmen and Ameriicans in the eighteenth century undertook a journey to Italy to absorb ancient and Renaissance sites

Question 14

pastel

Answer 14

• a colored chalk that when mixed with other ingredients produces a medium that has a soft and delicate hue

Question 15

salon

Answer 15

• a government-sponsored exhibition of artworks held in Paris