A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

Figure 1.5 Roderick Chalmers: The Incorporation of Wrights and Masons in Front of the Palace of Holyrood House ...

rebellion among some of its members, including David, whose interventions led to its temporary closure (Cro ...

academicians made conservative or doctrinaire approaches less viable. Eighteenthcentury art practice also ...

from academic strictures of any kind. These spaces could also be used in order to exploit through patr ...

Beware those people whose pockets overflow with intelligence and who scatter it about on the slightest pret ...

Miller, Elizabeth and Hilary Young, eds. 2016. The Arts of Living in Europe 1600–1815. London: V and A Publ ...

2 Genres and Contested Hierarchies From the Renaissance onwards there was an understanding among the scholars a ...

French Revolution, in 1790, when David and other dissident artists, who had formed a group known as the C ...

Of all the genres of painting, history is without question the most important. The history painter alone is the pa ...

Figure 2.1 Noël Hallé: Trajan Showing Mercy, oil on canvas, 265 × 302 cm, 1765. Musée des Beaux Arts, Marseille. ...

the history genre and those who produced it were often seen as embodying masculine virtues and tastes that ...

further public interest in historical subjects. In London, Paris and Rome a series of academy competitions (e. ...

Natoire (1700–1777) the absorption of Italian influences gained when resident in Italy. But for Natoire and Boucher ...

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Figure 2.2 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: The Chariot of Aurora, oil on canvas, 90.2 × 72.7 cm. The Metropolitan ...

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Figure 2.3 François Boucher: The Toilette of Venus, oil on canvas, 108.3 × 85.1 cm, 1751. The Metropolitan ...

(Scott, 1995, 177). Representations of “heroic” mythological subjects such as those in Coypel’s Aeneas se ...

(1728–1779), Gavin Hamilton (1723–1798), FrançoisGuillaume Ménageot (1744–1816), François André Vincent (17 ...

and LouisJeanJacques Durameau (1733–1796) emulated the Italian baroque tradition. The austerity of the Roman schoo ...