Exam 23: Art in the Age of the Enlightenment, 1750-1789

George Stubbs specialized in paintings of:

Who promoted the art and culture of ancient Greece as a foundation for Neoclassical culture?

Gavin Hamilton's Andromache Bewailing the Death of Hector was widely available for viewing to the public because:

Neoclassicism was a reaction against:

What style is characterized by a revival of classical forms and motifs, embraced Enlightenment ideals, valued intellect over emotion, and line over color?

The Chiswick House by Lord Burlington demonstrates a movement away from Palladio's influence in English Neoclassical architecture.

Whose paintings have a moralizing quality saying that war is noble and that no sacrifice is too great for the good of the state?

Who designed English Neoclassical interiors based on the antique without slavishly imitating it?

Who was the most important history painter in England in the late 1700s and early 1800s?

Compare Rococo and Neoclassicism in terms of subject matter, style, and purpose.

Which French sculptor best exemplifies Enlightenment empiricism?

Which architect had a strong influence on Neoclassical architecture?

This sculptor is often described as the portraitist of the Enlightenment:

Discuss David's Oath of the Horatii as a political work of art.

Who was the artist who produced romanticized depictions of monumental buildings and ruins from Roman antiquity?

The climax of the Grand Tour of the eighteenth century was often a trip and extended visit to which city?

What is traditionally classical and what is distinctly new, and Neoclassical, about Claude-Nicolas Ledoux's Barrière de l'Etoile that once stood in Paris?

How does Benjamin West's The Death of General Wolfe combine imagery and ideas from the history of art and Christianity to comment upon a contemporary military event? What message does West seek to communicate about the death of the English general?

The Age of the Enlightenment was exclusively a European phenomenon.

Though an accomplished Neoclassical painter, Angelica Kauffmann was not permitted to join the Royal Academy because she was a woman.