Exam 24: The Rococo and the Enlightenment on the Continent: Privilege and Reason

Define Mozart's dramma giocoso,his uniting of opera seria and opera buffa,illustrating your points with specifics from Don Giovanni.

Compare the courts of Prussia's Frederick I and his son,Frederick the Great.

As explained in the chapter's "Continuity and Change" section,why was Marie-Louise-Elisabeth Vigée-Lebrun's Marie-Antionette en chemise rejected by the Salon of 1783?

Why did Louis XV twice ban printing of the Encyclopédie?

Why do many of François Boucher's paintings of Madame de Pompadour show her reading or writing?

How did Voltaire make himself so unpopular with both the French and Prussian courts that he had to retire to the country to avoid imprisonment?

What does Yu the Great Taming the Waters,carved onto a massive piece of jade,represent?

Why did Jean-Antoine Watteau's fêtes galantes become so popular?

Which of the following does not define Rococo interior architecture?

From what sources did the English draw inspiration for the English garden?

With what were the eighteenth-century French philosophes concerned?

List and describe the four sections of Johann Stamitz's orchestra.

Why did the philosophes alienate themselves from the Church?

Describe the features of the English garden,and explain the intended effects on the viewer of its design.

Why in the mid-eighteenth century did art criticism begin?

On whose art did Watteau model the dog in The Signboard of Gersaint?

Why is the music that arose in reaction to the Rococo called "classical"?

Why did English landscape architect Lancelot "Capability" Brown issue yellow-tinted glasses to Stowe gardens' visitors?

Which of the following is not characteristic of the English garden?

Identify and describe two ways Rococo painting differs from Baroque.