Classical Related Arts Quiz Flashcards
Rococo style
Softer and more delicate than baroque
Paris salon
Social gathering held in a wealthy woman’s hotel
Most famous Paris salon
Madame Geoffrin
Wistful mood of rococo painting captured by
Antoine Watteau
Paintings:
Pilgrimage to the island of cythera
Fete galante
New style of painting invented by Watteau
Fete galente
Introduced pastel crayon as a medium
Rosalba Carriea
More sensual and decorative side of rococo
François Boucher
Paintings:
The toilet of Venus
Lighthearted charm of rococo
Fragonard
Paintings:
The Progress of Love (4 painting cycle)
The meeting/Storming the Citadel
Portraitist and confidante of Marie Antoinette
Vigée-Lebrun
Paintings:
Self-portrait in a straw hat
First woman to dance like a man, trained at Paris Opera professional dance school
de Carmargo
Chief rival to Camargo
Marie Sallé
Made his career painting portraits of British High Society
Gainsborough
Popularized science and belief in reason
The Enlightenment
Attempt to systematically compile all human knowledge
The Encyclopedia
Editor: Denis Diderot
Enlightenments most popular writer. Wrote Emile or education and the social contract
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Scottish moral philosopher. Wrote inquiry into the wealth of nations
Adam Smith
France’s most popular play
The Marriage of Figaro
Most popular painter of mid-eighteenth century
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Bride of the village
First great English novel
Pamela or Virtue rewarded by Samuel Richardson
Most popular sentimental novel of 18th century
Rossueau’s Julie or the new Heloïse
Combined stylized acting, song, dance, and colorful costumes in Japan
Kabuki Theater
