ARTH 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: George Stubbs, Whistlejacket, Johan Zoffany
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Studied in hospitals and teaching human anatomy. After dissecting horses, he could paint horses as exact as ever seen before. 2/14/2017: places attention on muscles, race horse, painted for the marquis; patron, famous stallion, joseph wright. Salon critics and the call for a new art: not a lot of art galleries, replacement. Inspire virtue, purify manors: jean-baptiste greuze. Filial piety (the paralytic) 1763: virtuous examples, moralizing. Neoclassicism: artists were to look to great paintings for inspiration, more travel of wealthy gentle that wanted more art in their homes, return to order, preferred style of france and american revolution, johann zoffany. Tribuna of the uffizi (1772-7: 4 italian families owned the statues, anyone traveling had to talk to these people to gain access, the grand tour. Pompeo batoni: paint self-portraits for people while on these tours, lord charles john crowie (1761-2, francesco piranesi. The temple of isis at pompeii (1788: angelica kauffman.
