Slide Images for September 24

 Jacques-Louis David

The Oath of the Horatii

1783-1784

 Angelica Kauffman

Zeuxis Selecting Models for His Picture of Helen of Troy

c. 1763

Jacques-Louis David

Le Serment du Jeu de Paume (unfinished)

1893

 Angelica Kauffman

Cornelia Presenting Her Children, as Her Treasures

1785

Angelica Kauffman

Design in the ceiling of the central hall of the Royal Academy, London

1778

 Anna Vallayer-Coster

Still-life with Lobster

1767

 Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Portrait of Marie Antoinette with Her Children

1787

 Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Portrait of the Artist with Her Daughter

1789

 Elisabeth-Louise Vigée-Lebrun

Hubert Robert

1788

 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

The Sculptor Augustin Pajou

1783

Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Madame Adélaïde

1787

 Adélaïde Labille-Guiard

Self-Portrait with Two Pupils

1785

Terms of the Day for September 24

• The Age of the Enlightenment - (also known as the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) A cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th-century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted science and intellectual interchange and opposed superstition, intolerance, and abuses in church and state.
• Neoclassicism – (meaning “new classical”) An artistic movement of 18th-century Europe in which there was a revival of classic antiquity in art, architecture, and literature, inspired directly from the ancient Greek and Roman periods, as a rejection of Rococo era art.  Based in the philosophies of the Enlightenment, Neoclassical art promotes morality and reason and rejects oppression of church or state.
• Planarity – a term that refers to the placement of objects and figures parallel to the picture plane in a drawing or painting
• Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture – a French royal art institution founded to professionalize the artists working for the French court and give them a stamp of approval that artists of the St. Luke's guild did not have.
• Salon (Paris) – a term used for the regular organized official exhibitions of art held by the  Académie de Peinture et Sculpture in France. To show at a salon, a young artist needed to be received by the Académie by first submitting an artwork to the jury; only Académie artists could be shown in the salons.

Slide Images for September 22

Jean-Antoine Watteau

A Pilgrimage to Cythera

1717

 Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Swing

1767

 Jean-Honoré Fragonard

The Stolen Kiss

1788

 François Boucher

Madame de Pompadour

1750

 The Boucher Room

The Frick Collection, 

New York City

François Boucher

Boudoir Décor (Paintings)

1750-1752

 Rosalba Carriera

Louis XV of France as Dauphin

1720-21

 Rosalba Carriera

Antoine Watteau

1721

 Marie-Anne Loir

Portrait of Gabrielle-Emilie le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquise du Châtelet

1745-49

 Catherine Read

Portrait of George Henry Fitzroy, Earl of Euston and Lady Georgina Fitzroy

c. 1760s

Mary Delany

Palseflora Launfolia, Bay Leaved

1774-88

Mary Delany

Flower Collage (detail)

1774-88

Terms of the Day for September 22

• Rococo – An 18th century artistic movement that rejected the dark palette and political nature of Baroque art in favor of lighter, more frivolous, wittier themes, bright pastel colors, and an abundance of decoration. 
• Salon (Private) – a gathering of people under the roof of an inspiring host, held partly to amuse one another and partly to refine the taste and increase the knowledge of the participants through conversation.  In the 18th century, these private intellectual gatherings also became a venue for exhibiting art.
• Salonnière – the female host of a salon gathering and patron of the arts.