Gardners Art through the Ages A Global History

ble master and mistress. The house is palatial, but Hogarth filled it with witty clues to the dubious taste of its occupants. Fo ...

certain standardized conventions, such as the large scale of the figure relative to the canvas, the controlled pose, the landsca ...

In Death of General Wolfe (FIG. 29-18), West depicted the mor- tally wounded young English commander just after his defeat of th ...

painting to contemporaneous English and European portraits. But the spare style and the emphasis on the sitter’s down-to-earth c ...

Neoclassicism One of the defining characteristics of the late 18th century was a re- newed admiration for classical antiquity, w ...

were the excavations of Herculaneum (begun in 1738) and Pompeii (1748), which the volcanic eruption of Mount Vesuvius had buried ...

JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID The Enlightenment idea of a par- ticipatory and knowledgeable citizenry lay behind the revolt against the Fr ...

Jacques-Louis David(1748–1825) became the Neoclassical painter-ideologist of the French Revolution. A distant relative of Bouche ...

Architecture and Sculpture Architecture in the Enlightenment era also exhibits a dependence on classical models. Early in the 18 ...

angles, and precise proportions, Chiswick looks very classical and “rational.” But the Palladian-style villa’s setting within in ...

29-28Thomas Jefferson,Monticello, Charlottesville, Virginia, 1770–1806. Jefferson led the movement to adopt Neoclassicism as the ...

THOMAS JEFFERSONPart of the appeal of Neoclassicism was due to the values with which it was connected—morality, idealism, patrio ...

HORATIO GREENOUGHAfter his death, Washington grad- ually acquired almost godlike stature as the “father of his country.” In 1840 ...

ROCOCO ❚In the early 18th century, the centralized and grandiose palace-based culture of Baroque France gave way to the much mor ...

30-1Nadar, Eugène Delacroix,ca. 1855. Modern print, 8– 21  6 –^23 , from the original negative. Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris ...

T he revolution of 1789 initiated a new era in France, but the overthrow of the monarchy also opened the door for Corsican-born ...

MAP30-2 Europe around 1850. MAP30-1 The Napoleonic Empire in 1815. Madrid Quinta del Sordo London Woodstock Brussels Waterloo De ...

1795, he worked hard to resurrect his career. When Napoleon Bona- parte approached David in 1804 and offered him the position of ...

LA MADELEINE Napoleon also embraced Neoclassical architecture as an ideal vehicle for ex- pressing his imperial authority. For e ...

DAVID’S STUDENTSGiven Jacques-Louis David’s stature and prominence as an artist in Napoleonic France, along with the popularity ...