Lecture 15: Late 18th Century: Reform and Neoclassicism

Announcement: Sections this week, but no lecture Wednesday.

Slide List

Recapitulation:
- Zimmermann,The Wieskirche, Bavaria. 1745-54.
- Neumann,Bishop-Prince's Residence Wurzburg, Germany. 1732-43.
  - Interior-ceiling by Tiepolo.
  - Interior
  - Interior.
English restraint, then Gothic fascination:
- Hoare Stourhead at Wiltshire, 1743.
  - garden/Contrast with Versailles/Comparison with Claude Lorraine, Pastoral Landscape.
Neoclassicism - renewed interest in antiquity of rome (excavations)
- Robert Adam, Syon House. Middlesex. 1760-9.
- Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham. c.1750. {Neo-Gothic, delight in tracery, irregularity, medieval}
English restraint in contrast to French
- Watteau, The Dance, 1717 / Fragonard, The Surprise, 1771.
- Gainsborough, Mr. and Mrs. Andrews, c.1749. {morality, disdain for aristocracy}.
- Hogarth, Marriage a la Mode 1743. {5 Scenes + print}
History in the present
- Benjamin West, Death of General Wolfe, c.1770./Compare Van Dyke's Lamentation Over Christ
- Zoffany, Life School at the Royal Academy, 1790.
  - scene 1
  - scene 2
- Sir Joshua Reynolds, Lady Sarah Bunbury Sacrificing to the Graces, 1765.
Neoclassicism in the United States:
- Houdon, George Washington / Rigaud Louis XIV, 1701.
- Stuart
  - George Washington - Athenaeum, 1796.
  - George Washington - Lansdowne Portraits 1, 2 and photo.
Neoclassicism in France:
- David,
  - The Oath of the Horatii. 1784-5./ lithograph of exhibition
  - The Death of Marat. 1793.
- Boullee. Projects. 1783.
  - Newton's Cenotaph
  - Egyptian Style Cenotaph