18th Century Art History Flashcards

Jules Hardouin-Mansart and Charles Le Brun
Hall of Mirrors, Palace of Versailles, 1678
gilded painted ceilings, large windows, mirrors on opposite side with venetian glass, 240ft long 47 ft high, paintings on ceiling depicting Louis' great victories, ultimate reception room

Hyacinthe Rigaud
Portrait of the Louis XIV
1701
shows the richness, elaborate clothing, silk in the background, self-absorbed and wanting to be portrayed as magnificent, showing his legs, wearing high heels, dark colored wig, fleur-di-lis pattern on cloak-symbol of french royal, gold on field of royal blue, urmin fur

Antoine Watteau
Pilgrimage to the Island of Cythera
1717
one of the most important paintings of Watteaus career, never trainted at the academy, accepted as associate in 1712, this was his reception piece, aloowed to selct his own subject, took him 5 years, new category: FETES GALANTES-outdoor setting, enjoyable lovely rural setting, pleasant, people not working, engaging in pleasurable activities), size of a history painting, people walking through woods, cherubs, dressed elegantely, boat in the left corner, people coming or leaving?right corner might be a statue of venus, goddess of love, curvy line throughout painting, strong bold color occsaionally but general natural colors, not saturated, muted, soft, intense brushwork

Watteau
The Portal of Valenciennes
1710
was from that village, theme of soldiers resting, at ease with muskets, pikes located at towns fortifications, during a famine, France was battling with Flanders for land, empathy for he soldiers, underneath a crumbling walkway, attention to clothing, nationalism, could have a political message, anti-french government, 3 fior di lei, show the French are lazy or it is an unnecessary war

Watteau
Venetian Pleasures
1718-1719
friends would pose in costumes for him, portrait of a friend as wel as a self-portrait, friend dressed in an oriental costume, Wattau is playing bagpipes, man dresed as dancer is reaching for a woman, positioned them in between the 2 dancers, dancing minuet, theatrical costumes, friend as a large nose, woman has some sort of reluctance, association with figures in the back and figures in the front, friend and watteau are equal distance apart from woman, sculpture above is checking out watteau, using dance as preventing love, goats head as sculpture, goat=aggressive lust, symbolize males conquering females, sexual obsessions

Watteau
Gersaints Signboard
1721
was cut in two and sold as two seperate paintings, large 5 ft by 10ft, Gersaint was an art dealer, sold many of Watteaus paintings, adverstisement for Gersaints shop, purchased after his death, depicts imaginary shop in paris, painting of Louis being put into crate (recently died), symbolize passing of Louis and moving on, 3 people looking at a large round painting, older woman looking at sky and trees, man checking out 3 nude women,women and men looking at a mirror: VANITAS-dutch still life painting, allude to passage of time, none of use get to live forever, fleeting of life, you never know when your life will be judged, vice of vanity, vice of carnality, also a painting of loving art, dog in foreground, art is superior

Watteau
Pierrot
1718
Stock figure, lifesize image of a human being, supremely important to watteau, melancholy, resigned, shoulders over pushed over, straight on view, depict a performer who is slack, is in costume, but not performing, personalizes a character individualizing pierrot the clow, not in makekup, he is usually the butt of jokes, pierrots role is to make everyone else feel clever, he plays the simpleton, personal, wistful, implying a kinship with pierrot

Germain Boffrand
Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise
Paris, 1732
drawing room, only for entertainment, when King Louis died, aristocrats went to paris and there was a boom in town houses, paris becomes cultural center, Rococo derives from French word for shell and peblle, natural objects, owned by gov't, public rooms were on first flor ,formal livign room, only 18th century townhouse that exists. relatively small, for intimate conversations and get together, most lavishly decorated, hoestesses gained represenations of statuse, salonniere- great hostess, invited intellectuals, muscians, artists, stimualte excited convos, Enlightenment was born from these palces, honest enthusiasiam, full of mirrors

Francois Boucher
Autumn Pastoral
1749
spotlight on decolletage (low neckline), pleasantly erotic suggestion, interaction between 2, flirtacious, man is feeding her grapes, grapes in lap refer to fertility, little boy off to the side watching flirtation, fountains with cupid, statuary reinforce theme, inncoent love, dog=fidelity, aolescence

Francois Boucher
The Triumph of Venus
1740
Knew textiles and sheen fabrics, more opache, naturalized throne for venus, similar to Botticelli Birth of Venus, mythological scenes, through of Rococo as a feminine style, large painting

Boucher
La Toilette
1741
cabinet pictures, depict everyday woman in fancy clothes, cat in between spread legs, theme of someone else watching with painting in a pianting woman getting dressed, or undressed, dressed because of garment on the shoulders, door is jarred open, personal moment, clutter, loosened corset, top of fireplace there is a letter, rouches-encourage flirtation, dots on face clutter is improper, teapot w/ 2 cups, someone will soon be entering the room, patron-swedish diplomat

Boucher
Madame de Pompadour
1756
mistress of the king, position of court, embrace of knowledge, books, flowers, globes, public statements of who she is, thought she had a good side, rococo posture, relayed informaility, dog in the corner, spaniel, voltaire and diderot-sponsered these authors. portrayed as Femme savante- knowledgeable woman, intellectual, portrayed as an individual, not portrayed as a provactive woman, intellignt elegant woman, collaborations between subject and Bouche, personifying Enlightenment

Maurice Quentin de La Tour
Portrait of Madame de Pompadour
Salon of 1755
'pastel portrait, was less liked than Boucher, portrayed as older and less beautiful

Clodion
Satyr and Bacchante
1775
table top sculptures, made of plaster, easily reproduce, meant for homes, themses of sensual, pleasure and flirtation, theme from classical mythology, arabesque curve

Clodion
Model for a Proposed Monument to Commemorate the Invention of the Balloon in France in 1783
1783-84
pedestal like capitol column with balloon, cherubs, burning natural materials to stoke the fire for hot air to rise, first real human powered flight, values of enlightenment