12/31/2008
Survey of Western Art History II
The Baroque Style in Western Europe
Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
Terminology
Rococo
aedicule
baldacchino
Baroque
q
burr
camera obscura
cantilever construction
chateau
clerestory
drypoint
etching
etching ground
The French Academy
hierarchy of subject matter
gable (or pitched) roof
genre
podium
rectilinear
section
silhouette
stylus
tenebrism
travertine
vanitas
chancel
chinoiserie
fleur‐de‐lys
hotel
impasto
molding
pagoda
stucco
trompe l’oeil
1
12/31/2008
Sir William Chambers. Pagoda, Kew Gardens, England, 1761.
Engraving by William Woollett after J. Kirby, hand‐colored by Heath
Germain Boffrand. Salon de la Princesse, Hôtel de Soubise,
Paris, c. 1740
Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768.
2
12/31/2008
Antoine Watteau. Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717. Oil on canvas
Antoine Watteau.
Gilles, undated. Oil on
canvas
François Boucher,
Venus Consoling
Love, 1751. Oil on
canvas
3
12/31/2008
Francois Boucher, Nude on a Sofa, 1752. Oil on canvas
Jean‐Honoré Fragonard,
The Swing, 1766
Hyacinthe Rigaud.
Louis XlV, 1701. Oil on
canvas
4
12/31/2008
Elisabeth Vigee
Lebrun, Marie
Antoinette, 1778
Elisabeth
Vigée‐Lebrun,
Self‐Portrait.
Oil on canvas
Thomas Gainsborough,
Mrs. Richard Brinsley
Sheridan, 1785‐7
5
12/31/2008
William Hogarth, Marriage à‐la‐Mode 2. The Tête à Tête, 1745.
Engraving after an oil painting of 1743
William
Hogarth.Time
Smoking a
Picture, 1761.
Etching and
mezzotint
i
Balthasar Neuman, the Residenz, Wurzburg, Germany, 1719‐1753
6
12/31/2008
Staircase of the Residenz showing the ceiling fresco of
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Wurzburg, Germany, 1752‐1753.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Investiture of Bishop Harold, frescoes in
the Kaisersaal, the Residenz, Wurzburg, Germany, 1751‐1752
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Investiture of Bishop Harold, detail of the
ceiling frescoes in the Kaisersaal, the Residenz, Wurzburg, Germany,
1751‐1752
7
12/31/2008
Matthäus Daniel
Pöppelmann,
Wallpavillon, the
Zwinger, Dresen,
Germany, 1711‐1722.
Dominikus
Zimmermann,
Wieskirche,
Bavaria, 1745‐
1754.
Richard Boyle,
Chiswick House,
near London,
begun 1725
8
12/31/2008
Robert Adam, fireplace niche, Osterley Park House, Middlesex,
England, begun 1761.
Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, near London, 1749‐1777.
Jean‐Baptiste‐Simíon Chardin, La Fontaine, first exhibited 1733
9
12/31/2008
Jean Baptiste‐Simeon Chardin, Pipe and Jug, undated
Anglica Kauffmann, Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures, 1785.
10
12/31/2008
John Singleton Copley
Paul Revere, 1768‐1770
Nicholas Boylston, 1767
Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, c. 1770.
11