CHRONOLOGY: 18th and 19th centuries
INTRODUCTION
- Creation of academies and schools for the applied arts
- Museums and "political buildings"
- Rococo: A French and Italian style (18th century)
- Neoclassicism: Classical revival (19th Century)
A) ROCOCO STYLE
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- 18th Century
- Aesthetic tastes of the nobility
- Decorative style, art for art's shake
- Vane topics
- Pastel colours
ARCHITECTURE:
-Salons and halls in royal palaces, courts and noble houses
- Examples:
Mirrors Hall, Danish Royal Palace (Amelienborg)
Gasparini Salon, Madrid Royal Palace
SCULPTURE:
- Small sculptures, joyful, mythological themes
- Example:
Fountain of the three graces
PAINTING:
- Pastel colours
-Themes: mythological, rural, bucolic, domestic scenes.
Examples:
The sling, Fragonard
The sleepy little shepherd, Boucher
The shop, Luis Paret
Licentious life, Hoggart
B) NEOCLASSICISM STYLE
-Visit the gallery
-18th - 19th century
- Art of the enlightened triumph over nobility and the Ancien Regime
- Art of the burghers
- Classical revival and reinterpretation
- Principles of morality, leisure, beautiful, practicality and modernisation
- Art of the new nations (nationalism), and the revolutions (liberalism)
ARCHITECTURE
- New pieces of art: parliaments, sewage systems, boulevards...
- Proportion
- Classical elements: Corinthian columns, classical pediments, domes and cornices, triumphal arches
- Examples:
Soufflot's Pantheon des Heros (Paris)
Arc du Triomph (Paris)
British Museum (London)
US Capitol (Washington)
The White House (Whashington)
Prado Museum (Madrid)
Alcala's Gate (Madrid)
Toledo's Gate (Madrid)
SCULPTURE
- Made on marble
- classical themes or political (empire style)
- Examples:
Jason and the golden fleece
The Empress Josephine
The Cibeles Fountain
PAINTING
- Imitation of classical models
- mythological and historical themes
-Examples:
The judgement of the Horatians, David
The Valinçon bath woman, Ingres
INTRODUCTION
- Creation of academies and schools for the applied arts
- Museums and "political buildings"
- Rococo: A French and Italian style (18th century)
- Neoclassicism: Classical revival (19th Century)
A) ROCOCO STYLE
- visit the gallery
- 18th Century
- Aesthetic tastes of the nobility
- Decorative style, art for art's shake
- Vane topics
- Pastel colours
ARCHITECTURE:
-Salons and halls in royal palaces, courts and noble houses
- Examples:
Mirrors Hall, Danish Royal Palace (Amelienborg)
Gasparini Salon, Madrid Royal Palace
SCULPTURE:
- Small sculptures, joyful, mythological themes
- Example:
Fountain of the three graces
PAINTING:
- Pastel colours
-Themes: mythological, rural, bucolic, domestic scenes.
Examples:
The sling, Fragonard
The sleepy little shepherd, Boucher
The shop, Luis Paret
Licentious life, Hoggart
B) NEOCLASSICISM STYLE
-Visit the gallery
-18th - 19th century
- Art of the enlightened triumph over nobility and the Ancien Regime
- Art of the burghers
- Classical revival and reinterpretation
- Principles of morality, leisure, beautiful, practicality and modernisation
- Art of the new nations (nationalism), and the revolutions (liberalism)
ARCHITECTURE
- New pieces of art: parliaments, sewage systems, boulevards...
- Proportion
- Classical elements: Corinthian columns, classical pediments, domes and cornices, triumphal arches
- Examples:
Soufflot's Pantheon des Heros (Paris)
Arc du Triomph (Paris)
British Museum (London)
US Capitol (Washington)
The White House (Whashington)
Prado Museum (Madrid)
Alcala's Gate (Madrid)
Toledo's Gate (Madrid)
SCULPTURE
- Made on marble
- classical themes or political (empire style)
- Examples:
Jason and the golden fleece
The Empress Josephine
The Cibeles Fountain
PAINTING
- Imitation of classical models
- mythological and historical themes
-Examples:
The judgement of the Horatians, David
The Valinçon bath woman, Ingres