Neoclassicism Flashcards

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John Vanderlyn 1775-1852

  • Trains briefly with Gilbert Stuart
  • studies in France
  • Tight Neoclassical style. Grand manner.
  • Inspired by Jaque Louis David
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John Vanderlyn

The death of Jane McCrae 1804

  • Neoclassical/Rainaissance rticulation of musclature
  • emphasis on the figures in the foreground
  • dramatic lighting
  • Her lover in the distance, too late
  • was one of the rotunda pictures
  • resemles postures in David’s “The Lictors Bring Brutus the Bodies of His Sons”
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John Vanderlyn

Adriane asleep in the island of naxos 1815

  • nudity ok if historical/religious scene
  • dramiatic lighting
  • not so strict with anatohmy, idealization
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John Vanderlyn

The gardens of Versailles 1819

Panorama Rotunda

  • to show the avrage Newyorker what it looked like
  • styalized. Not a concern for formality
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Rembrant Peale 1778-1860

  • Painter, museum keeper after his father
  • Early portrits, then to France.
  • inspired by David

The court of death 1820

  • quoting the “nightmare” (dante)
  • Hiarchitic and compositional scale among the figures
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