A History of European Art

Lecture 39: Neoclassicism and the Birth of Romanticism

Saturn Devouring One of his Sons, 181923, oil on plaster, mounted on

canvas, 57 ½ x 32 ¾” (146 x 83 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Self-Portrait with Dr. Arrieta, 1820, oil on canvas, 45 ¼ x 30 ¼” (114.62

x 76.52 cm), The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota,

USA.

Tampoco, from The Disasters of War, c. 1815, etching and aquatint,

6 ¼ x 8 ¼” (15.7 x 20.8 cm), private collection.

The Third of May 1808 and The Second of May 1808, 1814, oil

on canvas, 8’ 8 ¾” x 11’ 4” (266 x 345 cm), Museo del Prado,

Madrid, Spain.

Jean-Antoine Houdon:

Benjamin Franklin, 1779, marble, 20 ½” H (52 cm H), Philadelphia

Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.

Peter Paul Rubens:

Saturn Devouring his Son (Time Devouring his Young), 1636, oil on

canvas, 5’ 11” x 2’ 10” (180 x 87 cm), Museo del Prado, Madrid, Spain.

Licht, Goya.

Schnapper. David.

1. Choose a painting by David that we discussed in this lecture and describe
   its relationship to the historical events of the time.


2. Contrast Goya’s painting during the French occupation of Spain with
   his later work as it moves toward Romanticism.

Suggested Reading

Questions to Consider