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Nicolas Poussin
The Israelites Gathering The Manna
1640
Made small scale paintings of historical pieces
Made an excuse saying he needed to go back to Rome to get his wife and never came back
Wanted to tell a story with the emotions of the people
Very carefully composed
Story of Israelites being led out of Egypt by Moses and wanting food
One person breasting feeding another showing charity
Was made to show Israelites suffering
Charles Le Brun
Repentant Mary Magdalen
1650
Was the first painter to the king
Landscape painting was behind it
Showes states of mind
Was a prostitute and was very rich because of it and the bible said she should be stoned
Gestured to say she is sorry
She is crying
Said to reject her wealth
Shown dressed wealthy
Brun thought he could show emotion and people would know what it was
Francois Girardon
Apollo Attended By The Nymphs of Thetis
1670
Learned from the artist of the past
Collaborated with Le Brun
Nymphs is the goddess of the sea (not shown)
Horses on the side of the sculpture
Louie 14th is known as the sun king
Quoted from the Apollo Belvedere
Same hair, not musclier, scandals, strap over chest, slender body types, drapery over right arm and arms in same position as Apollo Belvedere.
Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of Louis XIV
1700
Had other artist working in his style
Painting shows Louie when he was in his 60’s
He ruled until his death
Everyone followed the king’s style
King wore a lace collar and red and silver heels
Hand resting on a cane
Young looking legs because he was in the ballet
A throne behind him
Was supposed to show he is the most important thing in France and that he owns you
The hands of justice is on the left of the painting
Antoie Watteau
Mezzetin
1720
Posted by one of Watteau’s friends
Playing a love song on a guitar
Theatrical costume
Face is a pinkish tone
He is rejected in love
The statue in the background is turing its back
In a secluded environment
Francois Boucher
Diana Resting After Her Bath
1740
Typical for Boucher’s Painting
Woman wearing ribbons and pearls
Was called erotic
Pretty small painting
Diana was a virgin because she rather hunt then marry
Dogs gentles on the left showing
Believed to be the goddess Diana
Germain Boffrand and Charles-Joseph Natoire
Salon De La Princesse
Hotel De Soubise, Paris
1740
Salon means room
Still looks like it did origanally
Oval shaped
Designed with molds on the walls
Meant to be like a garden with vine like forms and blue ceiling for the sky
Jean-Honore Fragonard
The Swing
1760
Only 32 inches high
Shades of green all around except the woman
Over grown garden
Picture is depersonalized
Man behind her is a servant
Shoe is supposed to represent virginity
Tricorn hat is used to put in fom of mans gentiles when they are excited
Scultpure of cupid has finger over his mouth to remind its a secret
Jean-Simeon Chardin
The Scullery Maid
1740
Natural colors
Chardin did mostly still lifes
Is part of a pair of pictures
Scullery is at the bottom of the servants
Is washing pans preparing for dinner
Never created history paintings
Jean-Baptiste Greuze
Filial Piety
1760
Shows a man having a stroke
Children behaving correctly with their ill father
Everyone is taking care of the father
One daughter is reading to him
One son is bring him a drink
Dog to the right feeding its puppies
Showing simple people
Mother is mending a garment
Parents always look a lot older then the children
William Hogarth
A Rake’s Progress: The Orgy
1740
Inspired by Jan Steen
A lot of ill behavior
People are doing things they aren’t supposed to
Tom looks drunk
Tom stabbing into a picture of Julius Caesar
Woman spitting her drink at another one
Woman lighting a map on fire
Prostitute putting on her clothes
Shows a lesson if you waste your money youll fail
Joshua Reynolds
Portrait of Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to The Graces
1760
Alouds her to wear an old costume
Brought together an other and new look for the women
Sarah was raised as an orphan and looked after by the grandmother
Got married to Charles then eloped with her cousin then married someone else
This painting was kept by the first husband
Roses are there for good friendship
Woman behind her is maybe Sarah Fox
Joseph Wright of Derby
An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
1760
Called candle light picture because it is so dark
one of a few night scenes
Wright’s night pieces were very complicated
6x8 feet high
Scientist in the painting
Bird in the glass is a cocadoo
Would pump the air from the animal till they pass out then let them breath
Saying their actions were looked upon by god
light becomes the enlightenment of knowledge in science
Benjamin West
The Death of Major-General Wolfe
1770
Painted historical objects
Said his paintings are stiff
Painting of French-British war
French were defeated
Wolfe said he could die in piece now that the French were defeated
Native American represents American
Wolfes outfit was considered to be shocking at the time
An actor was entereged by the painting so he acted out the death in front of it
The king of England wouldnt buy the painting because of what the general was wearing but ended up buying it
Henry Fuseli
Milton Dictating to His Daughter
1800
Has a single focus
Light is only on the main daughter
Fuseli decided to make a gallery of Milton but it closed soon after
Milton was blind
Daughter was writing paradise lost
Milton was dictating to his daughter
The other daughter was mentally disabled
Inspired by Parmigianino, Madonna with the long neck
Rosalba Carriera
Portrait of Charles Sackville, 2nd Duke of Dorest
1740
Carriera was trained in pastel early on
Did bust portraits
People didn’t stay in Venece long so they didn’t get full portraits
One of three major female artist
Still part of the families collection
Pastel represented him in grand fashion in carnival attire
Wearing a hat with a mask tucked into it
Carriera did portraits of one hand showing and the haft the face
Lace is not detailed
Face looks more finished
Halo of light around the head
Giambattista Tiepolo
The Institution of The Rosary
Santa Maria del Rosario, Venice
1740
Last major fresco painter
Look 3D
Looks like people are falling out
Painted at a 45 degree angle
Church was built by the Dominicans
Saint Dominic is in the painting giving the rosary to the people
People are reaching for Dominic
Above the people is the Virgin Mary and Jesus
Star over Dominic’s head
Message is the Dominicans claim for salivation
Woman are dominant
Color scheme is subdue
Giambattista Piazzetta
Saints Hyacinth, Vincent Ferrer, And Luis Beltran
Santa Maria del Rosario
1640
Style is fairly life like
Color scheme is usually monochromatic (chestnut, red, yellow, grey)
Dominican Saints
Technique shows movements
Angel moves your attention to the ceiling
Theres action but no pivotal moment
Angel looking up reminds us to look up to Dominic
Saint Highestine - Poland priest and went to Rome and saw a miracle and became a Dominican Monk. Was holding the monstrance and was being yelled at to save the Virgin Mary.
Saint Vincent - From Venece. Knew all the scripters by memory. Often shown with a flame over him or holding it.
Saint Lewice - Related to Saint Vincent. Wasn’t to smart. Traveled to South America to convert the natives.
Saints never existed together
Antonio Canova
Daedalus and Icarus
1780
Artist were more interested in making people more realist now
Became interested in a heroic quality
Icarus is holding a cord
Daedalus has wax wings
They are trying to escape but the wax wing started to melt
Father is curling up his lip
Son is looking back at his new wings
Natural interaction
Father is covered by the son
Tools are at their feet
Anton Raphael Mengs
Parnassus
Villa Albani, Rome
1760
Made from fresco
Made for Cardinal Carvany
Mengs believed you could find beauty in earlier pieces of art
Painting is like you are looking straight ahead at it
The city of Delphi is the background
Apollo is in the center surrounded with the muses
Rome is the protector of Ancient Greek art
Blue ball is the globe of the heavens
Referenced from Allegory of Peace
Jacques-Louis David
The Oath of the Horatii
1780
Taken from a play
Three young men from each town went to fight
6 men in all
One of the Horatii came back after winning
Comilla is in white
Comilla’s brothers and fiancee is fighting
Two brother and fiancee died
Painting shows the father swearing in the sons
Arches show the grouping of the people
Women look helpless
Main focus is the men
Was used as the symbol for people to do the right thing for their country
Brother who lived killed Comilla since she wouldnt stop yelling that he killed her fiancee
Could barely see the brush strokes
David drew his figures in the nude and then added the clothes
Created the licked surface - the painting is so neat you cant see the brush strokes
Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun
Portrait of Princess Ekaterina Dolgorouky
1800
In an interior reading a book imagining what she is reading
Princess was a high functioning member of the elite
Costume inspired by the sibyl and the turkish culture
Shows the scroll on the left which is music
Made multpile refrences to the sibyl
As she developed as a painter her palette became brighter
Jacques-Louis David
The Death of Jean-Paul Marat
1800
David was committed to activities in the French Revolution
Was murdered in his bath tub
David paid for his funeral
Marat studied medicine
Marat frequently had to go into hiding
A woman came into his house and stabbed him to stop him from writing anything else
Holding a letter from his assassin
Had a skin condition
Doesn’t show Marat in a relgious context
Wooden table was very detailed
Black shadow behind his head and bright shadow in the opposite corner
No sign of after life
The head is wrapped to show him as a philosopher
