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
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
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
Music
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
Literature: grew out of the medieval romances and the picaresque stories like Don Quixote, Cervante
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
Art in the Age of Enlightenment
Art
- 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
- 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
- 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
Music- 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
Literature: grew out of the medieval romances and the picaresque stories like Don Quixote, Cervante