Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

Katsura River southwest of Kyoto, has many features that derive from earlier teahouses, such as Rikyu’s Taian (FIG. 28-7). Howev ...

to produce a striking two-dimensional pattern of dark forms on a gold ground. He even created a contrast between the dark motifs ...

D uring the Edo period,ukiyo-e (pictures of the floating world) woodblock prints became enor- mously popular. Sold in small shop ...

SUZUKI HARUNOBUThe urban appetite for ukiyo pleasures and for their depiction in ukiyo-e provided fertile ground for many print ...

Modern Japan The Edo period and the rule of the shoguns ended in 1868, when re- bellious samurai from provinces far removed from ...

the world scene today. Japanese architects have made major contri- butions to both modern and postmodern developments (see Chap- ...

HAMADA SHOJIAnother modern Japanese art form attracting great attention worldwide is ceramics. Many contemporary admirers of fol ...

MUROMACHI PERIOD, 1336–1573 ❚The period takes its name from the Kyoto district in which the Ashikaga shoguns maintained their he ...

29-1Jean-Honoré Fragonard,The Swing,1766. Oil on canvas, 2 85 – 8  2  2 . Wallace Collection, London. In this painting epit ...

I n 1700, Louis XIV still ruled as the Sun King of France, presiding over his realm and French culture from his palatial residen ...

Architecture Rococo appeared in France in about 1700, primarily as a style of inte- rior design. The French Rococo exterior was ...

T he feminine look of the Rococo style suggests that the taste and social initiative of women dominated the age—and, to a large ...

VIERZEHNHEILIGEN Rococo style was not exclusively a do- mestic phenomenon, however. One of the most splendid examples of Rococo ...

seen clearly by contrasting Rigaud’s portrait of Louis XIV (FIG. 25-30) with one of Watteau’s paintings,L’Indifférent (The Indif ...

color difference, defining in a single stroke the shimmer of silk at a bent knee or the iridescence that touches a glossy surfac ...

and higher, while her lover (and the work’s patron), in the lower left corner, stretches out to admire her ardently from a strat ...

PHILOSOPHES The work of Newton and Locke also inspired many French intellectuals, or philosophes.These thinkers conceived of ind ...

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTIONThe Enlightenment’s empha- sis on scientific investigation and technological invention opened up new possib ...

“Natural” Art ROUSSEAUThe second key figure of the French Enlightenment, who was also instrumental in preparing the way ideologi ...

JEAN-BAPTISTE GREUZE The sentimental narrative in art be- came the specialty of French artist Jean-Baptiste Greuze(1725–1805), w ...