Thursday, September 26, 2013

Chapter 11- Neoclassicism

ANGELICA KAUFFMAN,
Cornelia Presenting Her Children as Her Treasures, or Mother of the Gracchi, 1785.

         Angelica Kauffman, Self Portrait, 1775.
 
 
Richard Samuel, Bluestockings as Muses, 1778.
 
 
JACQUES-LOUIS DAVID, Death of Marat, 1793




Chapter 11-- The Enlightenment

SIR JOSHUA REYNOLDS, Lord Heathfield,1787
 
BENJAMIN WEST, Death of General Wolfe, 1771
 
JOHN SINGLETON COPLEY, Portrait of Paul Revere, ca. 1768–1770
 
JOSEPH WRIGHT, A Philosopher Giving a Lecture at the Orrery, ca. 1763–1765
 

Chapter 11-Le Brun, Chardin and Hogarth

ÉLISABETH LOUISE VIGÉE-LE BRUN, Self-Portrait, 1790
 
 
Marie Louise Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun – Marie Antoinette and her children ,1787
 
 
JEAN-BAPTISTE-SIMÉON CHARDIN, Saying Grace, 1740
 
WILLIAM HOGARTH, Breakfast Scene, from Marriage à la Mode, ca. 1745
 


Food history video

Here is the link to the French Revolution episode of, 'The Supersizers Eat..."


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3J64nFmn5Y

Chapter 11-Rococo

   ANTOINE WATTEAU, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717


Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing (French: L'Escarpolette), ca. 1767
 
 
François Boucher, The Toilet of Venus, 1751
 

Saturday, September 21, 2013

Chapter 10- Vermeer and Rembrandt

JOHANNES VERMEER, Girl with a Pearl Earring, 1665.
 

JOHANNES VERMEER, Allegory of the Art of Painting,
1670–1675
     REMBRANDT VAN RIJN,The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes    Tulp,1632
REMBRANDT VAN RIJN, Self-Portrait, ca. 1659–1660





 

Chapter 10-Baroque France

HIGH HEELS!

HYACINTHE RIGAUD, Louis XIV, 1701.


JULES HARDOUIN-MANSART, CHARLES LE BRUN, and ANDRÉ LE NÔTRE, Versailles Palace, begun 1669.