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15 Cards in this Set
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Rococo Period
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emphasized a portrayal of the carefree lifestyle of the aristocracy rather than grand heroes or pious martyrs
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Enlightenment
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the Age of Reason, the name applied to an intellectual movement which valued reason over emotions
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Fete Galante
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well-dressed people in a park-like or country setting
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Empiricism
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knowledge through experience only
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Modernity
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the state of being modern, requires an awareness of history
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The Academy System
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provided support, instruction, and a place to display work for artists. Allowed the establishment to control art and culture.
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Neoclassicism
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originated as a reaction to the Rococo and its perceived decadence. Part of the revitalization of interest in classical culture.
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Le Beau Ideal
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something beautiful which does not occur in nature. (Generally people)
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Exemplum virtutis
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an example or model of virtue
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Romanticism
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an artistic movement that expressed ideas of freedom of thought, feeling, and taste, and stressed individualism, social activism, and the Sublime
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Ruchenfigur
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a figure in a contemplative pose with his back to the viewer
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Orientalism
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Euro-centric attitudes, usually negative, towards foreign and exotic cultures
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The Sublime
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a sense of awe mixed with fear
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Fin de Siecle
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fear and anxiety of a new era, brought on often by the end of the century
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Bonapartism
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a political philosophy named after Napoleon. Used the spreading of the ideas of the French Revolution to distract while he consolidated power.
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