Neoclassicism

Question 1

Neoclassicism

Answer 1

-Johann Joachim Winckelmann, German archeologist and art historian, excavated the old Roman cities Herculaneum and Pompeii

Eulogized the ‘noble simplicity and calm grandeur’

Resurgence of Classicism

• modeled upon the republicanism of classic Greece and Rome
• Insouciant art of a privileged minority were no longer regarded as adequate expressions of real life

Question 2

Answer 2

Jeacques-Louis David

• idealized Roman virtues: civic duty and resistance to tyranny
• The Lictors Bringing Brutus the Bodies of his Sons

Brutus is seated stoically as soldiers carry in the bodies of his sons—condemned to death by Brutus himself for plotting against the Roman Republic

4 years later: French Revolution

Question 3

Answer 3

Antonio Canova

-sculptor

Pauline Bordhese as Venus, 1805

Portrayal of Napoleon’s sister as a goddess of love

Borrowed the pose from a Titian painting and the body of a Greek statuary to create a flawless, idealized but static masterpiece