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Style Periods |
Middle Ages (500-1500), Renaissance (1500-1650), Baroque (1650-1750), Rococo (1750-1800), Romantic (1800-1900), Modern (1900-present) |
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Artist |
Henri Felix Philippoteaux (1815-1884) |
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what was this artist famous for? |
cycloramas of battles |
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what is the name of this painting? |
Charge of the French Cuirassiers |
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what was a cuirass |
piece of armor: breastplate |
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this painting takes place |
at the very end of the period having cuirass |
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what was the main weapon of people of the napoleonic era |
sword |
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curiassiers were trained to |
fire weapons on horseback |
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the painting captures |
an actual tactic used in napoleonic era: the army forming a square |
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the war: |
napoleon wreaking havoc all over Europe. defeated and banished to an island. rescued and started all over again. went to Waterloo. duke of Wellington lead victory against napoleon --> captured for real this time. huge week long parties ---> celebrating the conquest of napoleon |
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Beethoven |
1770-1827. from Germany |
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Maelzel |
invented metronome. made huge music making machine (with clockwork) made a machine specifically to celebrate end of napoleonic war. beethoven wrot the music for machine/ ("wellington's victory") didn't work very well. Beethoven rescored for orchestra, mimicking the battle itself. |
