Terms
• Vienna: Capital of Austrian Empire and center of Classical Music• Paris: Capital of France and center
of Enlightenment Art & Society
Art & Culture During the Enlightenment
BaroqueBaroque
• Ornate, dramatic, artistic style developed in Europe in the 1550’s
RembrandtRembrandt
RococoRococo• style of 18th-century
painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation
Boucher’s Fountain of Love
Boucher’sMadameBergeret
Boucher’sMorningCoffee
Boucher’s Love Letters
Boucher’s Madame la Pompdour
Boucher’s The Flute Lesson
Boucher’s Grape Eaters
Fragonard’s Mother &
Child
You are listing to Johannes Sebastian Bach’s
Brandenburg Concerto
Fragonard’s If Only He Were As Faithful to Me
Fragonard’s The Captured Kiss
Fragonard’s The Stolen Kiss
Fragonard’s The Swing
Clodion’s Poetry & Music
Clodion’s Montesquieu
Clodion’s A Vestal
Clodion’s Cartelen
Gainsborough’s Mr. & Mrs. Andrews
Gainsborough’s Mrs. Howe
Gainsborough’s Sarah Siddons
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
Serves: French Royal
Porcelain
English Wedgewood
John Smart’s Miniatures
French Furniture
Newton’s Tomb
Jefferson’s Monticello
Jefferson’s University of Virginia
Versailles: Temple of Love
Royal Scottish Academy
Enlightenment Art
• Roccoco to Neoclassical• Romantic Love• Classical Greek Themes • Portraits – Full Size
and Miniatures
Boucher’s Madame la Pompdour
Fragonard’s The Stolen Kiss
Clodion’s Montesquieu
Gainsborough’s Blue Boy
English Wedgewood & French Serves
Jefferson’s Monticello
A Parisian Salon
Madame Geoffrin’s Salon
The Salonnieres
Madame Geoffrin
(1699-1777)MademoiselleMademoiselle
Julie de Julie de LespinasseLespinasse
(1732*-1776)(1732*-1776)
MadameMadameSuzanne Suzanne NeckerNecker
(1739-1794)(1739-1794)
Baroque Music
• Developed new instrumental playing techniques
• Established opera as musical genre
Johannes Sebastian BachJohannes Sebastian Bach• 1685-1750• Baroque Music• Counterpoint: 2 or more
melodies combined• Fugue: instruments and/or
voices play variations of same melody at same time
• Organ• Harpsichord
•Brandenburg Concerto
•Toccata & Fugue in D Minor
The Musical Offering
Violin Sonata No.1 in G Minor
George Frideric Handel (1685-1759
• German Composer• Messiah, “Hallelujah”
chorus• Inspired Beethoven and
Mozart
Classical Music
• Had more elegant, graceful feel than Baroque
• Gave importance to symphony, string quartet
Classical Music
• Symphony- long, complex musical compositions scored for orchestras
• String Quartet- musical ensemble of 4 string instruments: 2 violins, a viola and a cello
Joseph Haydn (1732-1809)
• Often called “father of the symphony and the string quartet”
• The Creation, The Seasons
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)
• Composed more than 600 works
• Child prodigy
Legacy of Enlightenment1.1. Democratic revolutions: America, Democratic revolutions: America,
Amsterdam, Brussels, and especially in Amsterdam, Brussels, and especially in Paris in the late 1780sParis in the late 1780s
2.2. Reform, democracy, and republicanism.Reform, democracy, and republicanism.
3.3. New forms of civil society –-- clubs, New forms of civil society –-- clubs, salons, lending libraries, & professional salons, lending libraries, & professional organizations.organizations.
4.4. Individual had come into existence as Individual had come into existence as a political and social force to be a political and social force to be reckoned with.reckoned with.