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11 Cards in this Set
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Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the Medusa, 1819 Romanticism
Gericault explored tragedies of modern life, preferred them to historical scenes. The raft was a modern allegory for France's lack of leadership. |
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Jaque Louis David, Death of Marat 1793
Neoclassicism.
Marat was JLD's friend and a Jacobian, a friend to the working class. JLD uses religious iconography and idealization to make him a martyr. Some believe foundation of modern art. Presented the day Marie Antoinette was guillotined. |
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Anne Louis Girodet, Portrait of Jean-Baptiste Belley 1797 Neoclassicism into Romanticism
Girodet portrays Belley, who was an ex-slave and member of the French National Convention, as powerful yet exotic. Both elevates him and establishes him as different, which embodies the contradictions of the revolution. Belley was a leader in the Haitian revolution, which most Frenchmen didn't care about but had to support to avoid hypocrisy. |
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Gondouin and Lepere, Vendome Column 1806-11
This column was built in the model of the column of the Roman emperor, Trajan. It was made from the ruins of enemy cannons and was meant to compare Napoleon to a Roman Emperor, symbolize his power. |
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Antoine-Jean Gros, Napoleon in the Pest-House at Jaffa 1804 Neoclassicism
Napoleon commissioned it when his army was in retreat from Egypt, and a plague had broken out among the troops. It's meant to dispel rumors that he'd gone to poison those that were too sick to save. He is touching a soldier, which represents compassion as well as medical enlightenment, since he know you cannot get the plague through touch. |
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Francisco de Goya The Third of May, 1808 1814 Romanticism
Napoleon's invasion of Madrid and deposition of the Spanish king. It's a contemporary history painting. An innocent christlike figure is appealing to robotic, Napoleonic soldiers. |
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Jean-Baptiste Greuze, The Village Bride 1761
This painting has subversive politics- It portrays the ordinary people of France as paragons of society, moreso than royals. This dramatization of a scene from everyday life brought viewers to tears. Clear separation of genders. |
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Jacque Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii 1785 Neoclassicism
JLD was a big believer in allegiance to state. This painting was commissioned by the monarchy for good PR- shows three brothers swearing an oath after successfully defending Rome by murdering their sister's husbands. Swords emphasized greatly by orthoganals and contrast, bright colors of robes. Gender divide. |
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Watteau, Gersaint's Shop Sign 1720-21 Rococo
This gallery is selling the experience of buying art, in an unacademic setting. People, women and men alike, are shown admiring different aspects of paintings. No gender divide. The newly ennobled were not interested in didactic paintings that required much historical knowledge, they liked smaller, pleasurable scenes. |
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Watteau, A Pilgrimage to Cythea 1717 Fete-Galant
This is an example of Fete-Galant, a genre at the academy that was invented to describe Watteau's works. Works of this type are interested in illegibility- some backs are turned to the viewer, which was strange. It is a scene of aristocratic gallivanting. |
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Charles Le Brun The Queens of Persia at the Feet of Alexander, 1660-61
This representation of Alexander the Great was part of a commission by Louis XIV, who loved Le Brun's work. The representation of Alexander reflects positively on the king, and is a triumph in varied expression and bodies. Also, atmospheric perspective. |
