A Guide to Eighteenth Century Art

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 ...

Figure 5.7 JeanÉtienne Liotard: Monsieur Levett and Mademoiselle Helene Glavany in Turkish Costume, oil on card ...

painted more documentary eastern scenes, participated actively as an artist in the construction of such fiction ...

viewer’s sympathetic engagement with the concerns of figures represented in art, “sentiments” could turn art ...

Figure 5.8 JeanBaptiste Greuze: The Village Bride or The Village Agreement, oil on canvas, 92 × 117 cm, 1761. ...

time to appeal to those who sought a freer style of painting in which looser brushwork and amoral subj ...

Hospital treated subjects such as the Good Samaritan and others relating to Protestant ethics (Webster, 19 ...

references to the sense of justice, benevolence and loyalty of their protagonists: Penny’s The Marquis of Granby r ...

It is thus that the dissolution of morals, the necessary consequence of luxury, brings with it in its turn the ...