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We look at the waning influence of the church and the aristocracy in Europe and the way that the decadence of the old order gives way to reason and democracy throughout the 18th Century.
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The Enlightenment
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, King of France and Navarre, 1701
Palace at Versailles, 1682
Hall of Mirrors, Palace at Versailles, 1682
Marie Antoinette's Bedroom, Palace at Versailles, 1682
François Boucher, Venus Consoling Love, 1751
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1767
Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1784
Jacques-Louis David, Death of Socrates, 1786
Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Marat, 1793
Jacques-Louis David, Napolean Crossing the Alps, 1800-01
Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770
Charles Willson Peale, Benjamin Franklin, 1789
