VPHA46H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Gian Lorenzo Bernini, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Age Of Enlightenment
14 Nov 2016
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Chronological order: renaissance, 14th to 17th century, baroque, early 1600s to early 1700s, rococo, early to mid 1700s, neoclassicism, mid 1700s to early 1800s. A) neoclassicism: la mort de marat (the death of marat), jacques-louis david, 1793, the horizontal, straight line composition and the blank background puts much more emphasis on the tragic death of the french revolutionary leader jean-paul marat. B) baroque: deposition (or entombment), caravaggio, c. 1600-04. C) rococo: the progress of love, jean-honore fragonard, 1771-73. Chronological order should be b, c, a. The most important factor during the baroque era was the counter-reformation. Artists aim to predict a varied, naturalistic space rather than just sticking to linear perspective: raphael, madonna of the goldfinch, 1505-1506. Although the background looks simple and dark, it still gives the sensation that you can go deeper in; you just cannot tell what would be deeper in the scenery, so you pay most attention to the figures.
