Chapter 20 (Paintings/Book) Flashcards
What does chambers pagoda depict
It depicts a garden with a giant Chinese tower and a mosque behind
What does Watteu’s pilgrimage to cythera depict
It depicts a picnic where people took a boat to reach the location. The boat has a seashell and there is a statue of Venus.
What does fragonard’s the swing depict
A woman being pushed on a swing showing up her skirt to the man on the floor. There is a Cupid statue doing a shush gesture.
What is Neumann’s residenz würzburg
It is an imperial staircase with a bunch of Greek inspired statues at the top on the railings as well as a painted ceiling showing orientalist imagery of how they thought the Middle East was. The ceiling imagery was worked on mainly by tiepolo while the rest is Neumann.
What is Zimmerman’s Wieskirche
It is a rococo church in Germany. It is plain from the outside but from the inside the way the wall is painted is to give you a “glimpse of heaven”.
What inspired Robert Adam
The discoveries in Pompeii
What style did he start designing in
Classical revival
What did Adam design the osterley park house after
A Roman villa
