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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
Baroque
• Ornate,
dramatic,
artistic style
developed
in Europe in
the 1550’s
Rembrandt
Rococo
• style of 18th-century
painting and
decoration
characterized by
lightness, delicacy,
and elaborate
ornamentation
Boucher’s Fountain of Love
Boucher’s
Madame
Bergeret
Boucher’s
Morning
Coffee
Boucher’s
Love Letters
Boucher’s Madame la Pompdour
Boucher’s The Flute Lesson
Boucher’s Grape Eaters
Fragonard’s
Mother &
Child
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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
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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)
Mademoiselle
Julie de
Lespinasse
(1732*-1776)
Madame
Suzanne Necker
(1739-1794)
Baroque Music
• Developed new
instrumental playing
techniques
• Established opera as
musical genre
Johannes 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 (17561791)
• Composed more than
600 works
• Child prodigy
Legacy of Enlightenment
1. Democratic revolutions: America,
Amsterdam, Brussels, and especially in Paris
in the late 1780s
2. Reform, democracy, and republicanism.
3. New forms of civil society –-- clubs, salons,
lending libraries, & professional organizations.
4. Individual had come into existence as a
political and social force to be reckoned
with.