Gardner's Art Through the Ages ch. 29
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 Antoine Watteau PILGRIMAGE TO CYTHERA 1717 Paris, France |  These fete galante paintings depict the outdoor amusements of French upper-class society. The haze of color, subtly molded shapes, gliding motion, and air of suave gentility match Rococo taste. |
| Richard Boyle and William Kent CHISWICK HOUSE Begun 1725 London, England |  For his British villa, the simple symmetry and unadorned planes of the Palladian architectural style were emulated. This is a free variation on the Villa Rotunda. |
| Germain Boffrand with painting done by Charles-Joseph Natoire and sculpture by J.B. Lemoine SALON DE LA PRINCESSE, Hotel de Soubise 1737-1740 Paris, France |  Elegant Rococo rooms such as this salon, featuring sinuous curves, gilded moldings and mirrors, small sculptures and paintings, and floral ornament, were the center of Parisian social and intellectual life. |
| Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin SAYING GRACE 1740 France |  Naturalism is embraced and celebrated with simple goodness of ordinary people, especially mothers and children, who lived in a world far from the frivolous Rococo salons of Paris. |
| William Hogarth BREAKFAST SCENE, from MARRIAGE a la MODE ca. 1745 England |  Fame was won for his paintings and prints satirizing 18th century English life with comic zest.This is one of a series of six paintings in which he chronicled the marital immoralities of the moneyed class. |
| Thomas Jefferson MONTICELLO 1770-1806 Virginia, United States |  A self-taught architect, he led the movement to adopt Neoclassicism as the architectural style of the United States. Although built of local materials, his Palladian Virginia home recalls Chiswick House. |
| Benjamin West DEATH OF GENERAL WOLFE 1771 England |  The great innovation here was to blend contemporary subject matter and costumes with the grand tradition of history painting (early neoclassicism). |
| Jacques-Louis David OATH OF THE HORATII 1784 France |  The leading neoclassical painter-ideologist in France at the end of the 18th century and of the French Revolution. This huge canvas celebrating ancient Roman patriotism and sacrifice features statuesque figures and classical architecture. |
| Jean-Antoine Houdon GEORGE WASHINGTON 1788-1792 United States |  Washington is portrayed in contemporary garb, but with incorporated Roman fasces and Cincinnatus's plow in the statue, because Washington had returned to his farm after his war service. |
| Jacques-Louis David DEATH OF MARAT 1793 France |  Being aligned with the Jacobins as well as role of de facto minister of propaganda, the artist depicted the revolutionary Marat as tragic martyr, stabbed to death in his bath. Although the painting displays severe Neoclassical spareness, its convincing realism conveys pain and outrage. |
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