A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

increasingly divergent art market. As nations developed their empires, neoclassical values of beauty and mora ...

A sound and thorough Sense of Beauty, Greatness, and Order in Nature, in Life, or in the fine Arts, will ...

represented a partdraped female figure whose “dress” was considered indecent as it achieved little more than ...

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Figure 5.1 JeanAntoine Houdon: Winter, or The Chilly Woman, marble, height 145 cm, 1783. Musée Fabre, Montpellier. S ...

selfcentered forms of artifice, altering their physical appearance, for example, through fashion, hairdressin ...

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Figure 5.2 Goya (Francisco de Goya y Lucientes): Plate 41 from “Los Caprichos”: Neither more nor less ...

Figure 5.3 William Hogarth: A Rake’s Progress (Plate 3), etching and engraving on paper, 31.8 × 38.7 cm, 173 ...

Figure 5.4 Gaspare Traversi: Posing for a Portrait, oil on canvas, 100 × 131 cm. 1754. Paris, Musée du Louvre. S ...

Enlightenment’s search for scientific knowledge. The Macaronies in Britain were a group of aristocrats who, in ...

direction and height of the viewer’s eye and gaze, not always helpfully aligned, given the crowded wall spaces ...

Figure 5.5 Philippe Mercier: The Sense of Sight, oil on canvas, 132.1 × 153.7 cm, 1744–1747. Yale Center for ...

thinkers, to luxury and its influence on the arts. In France, debates about luxury were often bound up with ...

government and based on the idea that the world contained finite resources or wealth that should be seize ...

Private Vices, Public Benefits, to undermine Shaftesbury’s view that social affections and a sense of ratio ...

genre paintings, such as the latter’s An English Family at Tea (c.1720; see Solkin, 1993, 67), which took ...

Chardin’s genre paintings, could be valued for its formal values (use of color, light and composition) and ...

The eighteenthcentury taste for Oriental themes in art expressed a further indirect means of exploring moral ...

lessons to be learned from contact with the wider world. There were also an increasing number of European ...