NEO-CLASSICISM

Question 0

DEATH OF MARAT

Answer 0

DAVID
-Empty space above to show heaviness
-skin disease
-killed by Charlotte Corday 
-showed as a hero
  Died while writing, body language similar to Jesus
-fell forward for cause

Question 1

OATH OF THE HORATII

Answer 1

DAVID
-masculine
-roman setting and feature (columns) 
-sacrifice for good of republic (alluding to French Revolution) 
-sculpturesque figures 
-deep/rich colors
-balanced:
  3 arches, 3 sons, 3 women, 3 swords

Question 2

GRANDE ODALISQUE

Answer 2

JEAN-AUGUSTE DOMINIQUE INGRES

• harem
• more lavish and has nakedness=dif from David
• manneristic
• odalisque=member of Turkish harem

Question 3

PAULINE BORGHESE AS VENUS

Answer 3

CANOVA

• Napoleons sister
• originally to be portrayed as Diana, but she insisted in Venus
• spotty reputation
• like Etruscan sarcophagus
• Hellenistic

Question 4

CHISWICK HOUSE

Answer 4

Boyle

• symmetrical
• unadorned
• right angles
• precise proportions
• Palladio influenced

Question 5

ROTUNDA

Answer 5

JEFFERSON

• after pantheon
• Greeks gave democracy
• Romans gave republic
• almost exactly half as small as pantheon
• ordered, structured

Question 6

MONTICELLO

Answer 6

JEFFERSON

• personal house
• balustrade (renaissance)
• brick=American
• symmetrical
• columns