The period between 1760 and 1830 can be described as a time when the middle class began to win power from the aristocracy One of the major events that occurred at the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the English cloth-making industry was the invention of the steam engine by James Watt The Industrial Revolution began in England because its government was will to fund industrial growth Adam Smith in his Wealth of Nations emphasized the concept of enlightened self-interest
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Jacques-Louis David and Raffaello Sanzio‚ better known as Raphael‚ are prime examples of painters whose art was heavily influenced by Greco-Roman culture and society. This is most evident in Raphael’s The School of Athens(figure 1) and David’s The Oath of the Horatii(figure 2). Artists portrayed Greco-Roman ideals in their works of art to inspire the citizens of their time to be more like the Greeks and Romans in their paintings. Raphael was an Italian exemplary artist during the High Renaissance
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Théodore Géricault was a French artist who was a part of the Enlightenment period or Rococo period‚ but more specifically and correctly‚ he was a part of the Romanticist period. Géricault is‚ also‚ an important figure of the Romanticism period. His dramatic themes‚ realistic portraits and haunting portrayals of serious topics helped to pave the way for the themes of rebellion‚ individuality‚ and truth that came with this artistic period. Also without him‚ elements from a pre-existing period‚ the
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the idea‚ in which style and form come together to create pictorial representation. 3. Jacques-Louis David is often described as the leader of the Neoclassical school of painting and Oath of the Horatii is frequently described as the quintessential Neoclassical painting. Identify five elements of David’s painting that might be described as Neoclassical. 1. “Neoclassic artists and critics sought to revive the ideal of classical Greece and Rome.” The drapery and clothing worn by the figures
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maturity in the people or give remembrance to a bloody time. During the Neoclassical period‚ one painting that really tries to draw out a sense of duty among the people was Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii. The painting portrays several people in Roman garments‚ these people are the three Horatii Brothers‚ who are reaching for weapons‚ their Father who holding weapons for them‚ and several women‚ who happen to be family of the three brothers‚ who also seem to be in a sorrowful state.
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Fine Art Unit 1 Study Guide · Description of David‚ by Italian Baroque artist Gianlorenzo Bernini. The sculpture was one of many commissions to decorate the villa of Bernini’s patron Cardinal Scipione Borghese · What are Italian Baroque characteristics of Gianlorenzo Bernini’s Fountain of the Four Rivers? The fountain served as a public emblem of the Catholic Church’s dominance and authority. · Caravaggio’s paintings depart from Renaissance traditions to reflect the Italian
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the most expressive neoclassical artistic medium. Art in the Neoclassical period celebrated the masterpiece Cupid and Psyche (1787-1793) by Antonio Canova in Louvre‚ Paris. Cupid and Psyche Antonio Canova >>> In painting‚ Jacques-Louis David’s work‚ The Oath of Horatiti (1784-1785)‚ exhibits his severe and uncompromising style. >>> There are other well-known painters during the neoclassical period: Jean August Dominique Ingres who painted Antiochus and Stratonice in 1834(left side) and Nicolas
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representations of man’s struggle against the awesome power of nature manifest this sensibility. Scenes of shipwrecks culminated in 1819 with Théodore Gericault’s strikingly original Raft of the Medusa (Louvre)‚ based on a contemporary event. In its horrifying explicitness‚ emotional intensity‚ and conspicuous lack of a hero‚ The Raft of the Medusa became an icon of the emerging Romantic style. Similarly‚ J. M. W. Turner’s 1812 depiction of Hannibal and his army crossing the Alps (Tate Britain‚ London)
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was completely tied up with the politic of the day and this is first noticed in his painting “The Oath of The Horatii”. Painted in 1784 “a number of historians have identified an element of pre-revolutionary radicalism and was seen as profoundly anti acadamie.” He soon joined the revolutionary “Jacobin Club” and was then commissioned to paint his first truly political painting “The Tennis Court Oath” which depicts the constitution of the national assembly at the royal tennis courts in the “Chateau
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thought nature could teach people so much Famous Romantic Artists: • Eugene Delacroix: large canvases‚ bold use of color‚ exotic themes. Liberty Leading the People is his famous work‚ a tribute to the French Revolution • Theodore Gericault: The Raft of Medusa showed fascination with nature and incompetence of the government Famous Romantic Composers: • Ludwig von Beethoven: classical styles‚ orchestral arrangements‚ he became deaf but still played‚ composes nine
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