Rococo to Neoclassicism

Question 1

Rococo starts out as

Answer 1

starts out as interior designs townhouse near the end of Louis 14th reign

Question 2

Rococo style architecture

Answer 2

ornate, opulent, soft curving lines, gold, pretty paintings on it

Question 3

Salon

Answer 3

a cultural phenomenon, a center of 18th-century Parisian society gathering with inspiring female hostess, people would interact and women would lead an intellectual conversation to all hours of the night

all were members of high society aristocracy and would meet up to be seen and wear all the fancy dresses and refine your taste and your culture and get to know others

Question 4

Enlightenment

Answer 4

philosophy, a new way of thinking a cultural shift a challenge to the old world order especially rococo style, and a new way of thinking of the world about humanity

not about ideals but a set of values

core critical questioning

question traditional institutions like the church traditional customs and morals

questioning monarchy, Church

and how traditional directed what/how we think, do the behavior, and feel

look at world based on reason, scientific research, imperial research

Question 5

Voltaire

Answer 5

show questioning, of education and reason and knowledge

against the monarchy, aristocracy, and the Church

he believed that the advancement of science and society condemned government persecution of freedom of thought and religion

society needed to progress and this leads the way to the French Rev

Question 6

Rousseau

Answer 6

opposite of Voltaire

that humanity is corrupt by arts, science, and society, civilization.

believes that man should go back to a primitive state, ignorance, innocent, happiness of man original state of man’s ability to feel comes the ability to reason, emotion, should conquer and go back to that

rejected Rococo bc too artificial, opulent, lust wanted natural style feeling above reason

Question 7

Neoclassism

Answer 7

interest in classical antuqity of Greek and Roman antiquity

subject matter: Greek and a Roman new look at classical in the 1700s

tied to the Enlightenment bc they saw interest in society and questions to institutions saw classical world as height of society and civilized gave a democratic form of gov liberty, civic virtue, morality and class tradition centered on

Question 8

Civic Virtue

Answer 8

sacrifice self for good of society

Question 9

Morality

Answer 9

good clean living

Question 10

Portico

Answer 10

porch

elevated on the podium with center staircase deep porch

Question 11

Colonnade

Answer 11

a row of columns, Romans got the name from Greeks

Question 12

Fluted Columns

Answer 12

scalloped design column not smooth all around but a scalloped design

Question 13

Corinthian Captial

Answer 13

the transition between column and tabulator has a leaf design

Question 14

Doric Capitals

Answer 14

a triangle plain and austare

Question 15

Doric Capitals

Answer 15

a triangle plain and austere