Art History U5

aristocracy

After 1715, the _____ made a surge into the societal and political realms.

Pompeii

Another reason for the big interest in the Classical style of art was the big excavations of Herculaneum (started in 1738) and _____________ (1748).

Renaissance

Charles Willson Peale certainly could be considered a _______ man; he was a painter, a naturalist, a soldier, a museum curator, and had interest in several other areas.

Neoclassicism

During the late 1700s and much of the 1800s, there were three big "isms" that overlapped each other and competed for the attention: ________, Romanticism, and Realism.

barbarians

Ingres defended vehemently against having these Romantic "______________," as he called them, affect the classic qualities of Neoclassicism.

humble

Kauffmann takes the ________________ and sweet message that Greuze and his companions shared and placed it in an ancient setting.

portrait

Kneller took ____ painting to an industrial level.

scientific

Newton's theories and experiments took the ___ revolution to a whole new level.

Marie Antoinette

One of Vigée-Lebrun's most loyal patrons was ____________.

The Grand Style

Reynolds was well known for his portrait paintings where he emphasized what was called "____________" which paradoxically brought perfection to imperfect traits.

natural

Rousseau's views were known and widely read, and many think it was because of his influence that the taste of the art world went from the flashy Rococo to a more simplistic and _____ style.

indulgent

The Enlightenment was occurring and people began to question the Rococo whimsical, ____ style of art.

obelisk

The design Mills came up with for the Washington Monument did not escape controversy when he sent in a design that was a(n) ______-shaped monument and very elaborate statues.

Locke

What Newton did for mathematics and science, a man named ____ did for political and social philosophy.

Trumbull

With a little help from the famous Thomas Jefferson, ________ began his work on Declaration of Independence.

industrialism

With the science movement spurred on by The Enlightenment that also brought about ______________, people were trying to catch up with all the exciting and unpredictable progress.

politically

Women were holding higher positions ______.

Canaletto

_____'s ability to paint detailed scenes became quite popular with tourists who were traveling Europe on their "Grand Tour."

Paris

______ was the social capital of the time.

Madame de Pompadour

_______ the famous and quite powerful mistress of Louis XV, took Boucher as her painter and commissioned several pieces from him.