Ahs 253 Test 2 Pt 2

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the traditionalist
Leading architect of France from mid-century to death of Louis XV

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Gabriel

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military officers school) at far end of parade
grounds.
by whom?

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Ēcole Militaire
Gabriel

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what does Ēcole Militaire
lack?

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articulation:
columns or pilasters)
on walls of wings
mildly neoclassical

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small mansion on palace grounds
built for mistresses of Louis XV

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The Petit Trianon

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Versailles Palace renovations and additions, what did it need

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Gabriel
needed grand staircase in enlarged & updated front wings

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completed 1770
entirely enclosed: interior only

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Versaille, Palace opera house

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versaille opera house, a few design details are novel but general effect

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baroque granduer

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more committed to neoclassicism
Most famous work: The Panthéon,

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Soufflot

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massive portico inspired by ancient Roman Pantheon
free-standing columns rising directly from floor level

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Pantheon

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Pantheon took influnce from w hat?

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Bramante’s
Tempietto, Rome,
Renaissance

Wren’s
St. Paul’s, London,
Baroque

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interior of Pantheon

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freestanding columns support
straight entablature
rich patterning & detail,
but restrained color

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crypt of Pantheon holds what?

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crypt holds remains of Voltaire, Rousseau, Hugo, Zola, Curie, Bougainville,
Braille, Soufflot himself, many others

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how was pantheon changed?

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partially due to structural
concerns, the great windows
were filled in, destroying
the effect of a light-filled
interior Soufflot had intended

even the exterior now seems
ponderous as a result

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sitting high on a hill,
one of most prominent
buildings of Paris skyline

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pantheon

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collaborate on prominent project, what project

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Peyre & DeWailly
Odéon, theater of the Comédie-Française

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different influences of odeon

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Interior design Baroque
but vestibule and upper lobby neoclassical concepts

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School of Surgery, Paris,
dominated by what

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Gondoin,
by colonnade
rising from street level, horizontal
attic floor above unbroken cornice
no pediment here

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anatomy theater bold composition

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of basic geometry with little decoration
half-dome with overhead lighting
reminiscent of Roman Pantheon

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model for early legislative chambers

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anatomy theatre

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A high point Hôtel Thélusson
for banker’s widow – free-standing triumphal arch,

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Ledoux

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Appointed to government service in 1770s but little work available
1784: commission to erect over 50 toll-houses to collect Paris import tax
these actually built, 1785-88

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Ledoux: The Barrières

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The barrieres featured

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heavy
rustication
from Mannerism

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government commission: saltworks
intended circle, but residential half never built

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Arc-et-Senans (Les Salines)

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utopian plan based on the Salines, developed over many years
published 1804ff

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Ledoux: the city of Chaux

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structures take symbolic abstract geometric forms
“talking architecture”

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architecture parlante

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visionary style based on simplified abstract geometry similar to Ledoux
best known for imagining projects of incomprehensible scale: the sublime

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Boullée

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architecture of shadows

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architecture des ombres

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Gabriel: Versailles palace opera house

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Soufflot
Panthéon

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Peyre & DeWailly:
the Odéon, theater

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odeon

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school of surgery,
gondoin

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Ledoux
Hôtel Thélusson

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ledoux,
barriers

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ledoux,
barriers

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Ledoux: Arc-et-Senans

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Ledoux: the city of Chaux
house of the wheelwright

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Ledoux
the cemetery building

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design for a tomb
Boullée

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wife (Marie-Thérèse Reboul, right) also painter and member of Royal Academy
• career & style Rococo-Neoclassical transition
David was pupil

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Vien

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The costumes and architectural details are ---
but but the sensuous figures and
frequent return ---

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fashionably Neoclassical
Rococo

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At height of Revolution, what does vien turn to

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no painting commissions,
printmaking

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1780s and 1790s period of most

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1780s and 1790s period of most

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who can vien be compared to?

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nuanced than Flaxman’s crisp line drawings

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most famous painter of late 18th cent. France
• student of Boucher (!), then Vien

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David

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Perhaps the
most famous
neoclassical
painting

uncompromising
clarity, relief-
like composition,
restrained color,
radically simplified
setting.

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David

The Oath of
the Horatii

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1789

the year the
Bastille was
liberated and
revolutionary
violence began

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Brutus returning
home after having
sentenced his sons
for plotting a
Tarquinian restoration
and conspiring
against Roman
freedom; the
Lictors bring their
bodies to be buried

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Pivotal moment
in history of the
Revolution

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birth
of the National
Assembly

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monochrome study for painting never done

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David
The Oath of the Tennis Court

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known for extreme political positions.
Writing to the French people, he said:
“Five or six hundred heads cut off would
have assured your repose, freedom and
happiness.”

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Marat

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based on ancient legend of women who forced their men to stop fighting -
reflects the calming situation in France after the Terror, when foreign
foes had been forced to retreat (in part thanks to skills of young Napoleon
influnce who?

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Intervention of the Sabine Women
Poussin

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a society beauty, wife of banker
later lover of Chateaubriand
this lounge named after her

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Mme. Juliette Recamier

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Who copied Recamier painting?

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Magritte

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Vien

Triumph of the Republic

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david
St. Roch Praying to the
Virgin Mary on behalf of
the victims of the Plague

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david

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known for genre and still life:
style independent of both Rococo and Neoclassicism;
influenced by Dutch Baroque painting;

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Chardin

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Welcome back, great
magician, with your mute compositions! How eloquently they speak!
How much they tell [the artist] about ... the science of color and harmony

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Diderot on Chardin

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best known for staged genre scenes
• emphasis on commoners and morality un-Rococo
• Diderot admired early ’60s, then turned against
• works much appreciated by Catherine the Great

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Greuze

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Greuze This painting
had an unusual
honor:

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The Village
Betrothal)
a play
was written and
performed in
Paris so that
the dramatic
climax was a

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the painter of virtue, the rescuer of corrupted morality

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Diderot on Greuze

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stays there 11 years, Piranesi circle

after Revolution curator of Louvre museum
• also designer of landscape gardens,

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Robert

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Creative reinterpretation of antiquity in fantasy scenes like Piranesi,but how is it differerent, and who?

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Robert,
mood is one of sunny, warm ease

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“All I possess has been attained
by my work and industry”

• Swiss-Austrian, native language German

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Kauffmann

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straight fluted legs
• rectangular or compass-drawn shapes
• columns, urns, swags, lyres, etc.
• light, delicate proportions

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Louis XVI, Directoire
Furniture

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big name in high-end cabinetmaking
German-born, but master in Paris 1768, cabinetmaker to king from 1774
became wealthy, lived through Revolution but ruined financially

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Riesener

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still prestige production

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Ceramics: Sèvres

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Royal Academy member 1754
transitional late Baroque/Rococo to Neoclassical
The Bather (Louvre, right) 1757 attracted attention
1757 advisor to Sèvres for ceramic sculpture

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Falconet

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1766 invited by Catherine the Great
to Russia: most famous work bronze
Peter the Great

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FaLCONET

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wrote “Sculpture” article for Encyclopédie;
complete written works fill 6 vols

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Falconet

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Won Prix de Rome but little inspired by antiquity
e.g. bronzes closer to Mannerism

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Houdon

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primarily known for portraits

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Houdon

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What did Houdon go to amercian to do?

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sculpt washington,

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Although working in Neoclassical era,
Houdon’s art

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more based in realism
than antiquity

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The Schoolmistress
Chardin

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Cornelia Pointing to her Children as her Treasures
Kauffmann

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Louis XVI, Directoire
Furniture

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Houdon

anatomicalo sculpture of a man

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Chardin

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Houdon,
Voltaire

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Greuze,
Indolence

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Falconet
Peter the Great

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Septimus Severus
Greuze

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Robert

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kauffmann
Venus and Cupid
introducing Paris
to Helen

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Falconet (

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