Art+in+the+Age+of+Enlightenment

Karen Chou Art in the Age of Enlightenment Art Music Literature: grew out of the medieval romances and the picaresque stories like // Don Quixote //, Cervante
 * Rococo-grace, gentle action, smooth curves, wandering lines of natural objects, seashells and flowers, lightness, charm, pursuit of pleasure, happiness, and love
 * Watteau: lyrical views of aristocratic life, element of sadness
 * Tiepolo: enchantment and exuberance, ceiling of Bishop’s Palace at Wurzburg
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 * Palace of Versailles: building, sculptural figures and wall and ceiling paintings were blended into a harmonious whole
 * Neumann: Vierzehmheiligen (The Fourteen Saints), Residenz (Bishop’s Palace), secular and spiritual interchangeable
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 * Zimmermann: Wies, holiness struck by richness of detail, persuaded by jo
 * Neoclassicism: recapture the dignity and simplicity of the classical style, Herculaneum and Pompeii influence
 * Jacques-Louis David: // Oath of the Horatii //, moral seriousness, honor and patriotism
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 * Bach-organist and music director, Mass // in B Minor, St. Matthew’s Passion //, easily move from religious to secular, // Coffee Cantata //, religious texts to secular music, music was a means to worship God
 * Handel-secular in temperament, writing operas, patronized by the English royal court//, Fireworks Music //, 40 operas and much other secular music, best known religious music, oratotio: extended musical composition on a religious subject (usually biblical), // Messiah //
 * Haydn- 104 symphonies, string quartets, concerti, songs, oratorios, masses, developed new forms of instrumental music, // The Creation, The Seasons //,
 * Mozart-concerto, symphony and opera, child prodigy, comic opera, // The Marriage of Figaro //, // Don Giovanni //, melody, grace, precision, emotion
 * Richardson- // Pamela: (Virtue Rewarded //): won large audience, sentimental and emotionalf
 * Fielding- against moral seriousness of Richardson, people surviving by their wits, // The History of Tom Jones, A Foundling //, emphasized action rather than inner feeling
 * Gibbon- // Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire //, growth of Christianity as a major reason for Rome’s collapse