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Art 623: Art from 1700 - 1750
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La Foire de Guibray
Playwright: Alain-René Lesage
Date: 1714
La Faire de Guibray is a one act play which actually serves as a prologue to Alequin Mahomet and Le Tombeau de Nostradamus. The plot of the play is about two thieves (while posing as Arab actor), Alequin and Scaramouche, who attend the Guibray Fair to steal merchandise from merchants. Alequin Mahomet proposes a play to the judge. -
The Scale of Love
Jean Antoine Watteau
Date 1715 – 18
Format: Oil on Canvas
Height: 51.3 cm
Width: 59.4 cm
Current Location: National Gallery, London, UK
Jean Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) was a French painter. Though is career was short, his art inspired rococo art which is creates from with the inspiration from Baroque. Watteau is consider the inventor of fetes galantes or scenes of bucolic and idyllic charm. -
Yoshitsune Shin-Takadachi
Playwright: Ki no Kaion
Yoshitsune Shin-Takadachi is a Japanese puppet play that is based on a conflict between brothers, Minamoto no Yoshitsune and Shogun Minamoto no Yoritomo during the 12th century. However, the play does have strong allusions to the 1615 siege of Osaka.
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Robinson Crusoe
Author: Daniel Defoe
Medium: Novel
Date: April 25, 1719
Robinson Crusoe is about the titled protagonist who is stranded on an island after a ship wreck in the Atlantic Ocean. The story talks about the adventures and trials that Crusoe endure on the island. -
Landscape with River and Figurines
Ricci Marco
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Height: 137 cm
Width: 197 cm
Date: 1720
Location: Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice Ricco Marco (June 1676 – January 1730)) was an Italian painter who received whom uncle taught him art in Venice. He worked with his uncle throughout his career which spans from Rome to England. Ricco was the main artist in Venetian style landscape. -
Brandenburg Concertos
ListenJohann Sebastian Bach
Brandenburg Concerti is perhaps Johann Sebastian Bach most well-known works. This collections of works is considered the finest music of the Baroque period. -
A reading of Moliere
Jean Francois de Troy
Date: 1728
Format: Oil on Canvas
Height: 72.94
Width: 90.8
Jean Francois de Troy comes from a family of painter. During his life, de Troy was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer. De Troy ‘s success came as a the result of large and allegorical paintings.
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The Beggar’s Opera
WatchJohn Gay
Medium: Opera
The Beggar’s Opera, considered as John Gay greatest work, is a three act ballad opera which was a satire of the Italian which were grown in popularity. The Beggar’s Opera was premiered at the Lincoln’s Inn Fields Theatre in 1728 and had 62 consecutive performances. -
Head of King Louis XV
Date: 1829
Francois Ce Moyne
Format: Black chalk and Pastel
Height: 11 5/8 in
Width: 8 ¼ in
King Louis XV (1710 – 1774) or King Louis the Well Beloved ruled France and Navarre from 1715 until his death in 1774. During his reign, the government returned the Austrian Netherlands and relinquished New France to the British Empire as a result of the 7 year war. These actions may have set the scene for the French revolutions.
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A Modest Proposal
Jonathan Swift
Medium: Satirical Essay
Date: 1729 A Modest Proposal for Preventing the Children of Poor People From Being a Burden to Their Parents or Country, and for Making Them beneficial to the Public or Simply A Modest Proposal is satirical essay that suggesting that Impoverished Irish could lessen their economic challenges by selling their children as food for the rich. -
Game Still-Life with Hunting Dog c. 1730
Jean Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
Format: Oil
Height: 139.1 cm
Width: 192.4 cm
Current Location: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA
Jean-Baptist-Siméon Chardin was a French painter who is known for his still life and genre paintings. -
Handel
Louis-Francois Roubiliac
Title: Handel
Medium: Sculpture
Date: 1738 Louis-Francois Roubiliac was one of the most prominent rococo style sculptures in London. Roubiliac was trained in the studio of Balthasar Permoser. In London, Roubiliac was commonly commissioned for portrait busts and church monuments. -
The Clavier-Übung III
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Considered Bach’s most extensive organ work, Clavier-Ubung III or German Organ Mass is a collection of composition for organ. -
Rundale Palace
watchBuilt: 1736 - 1740
Location: Latvia
The Rundale Palace is a baroque palace was constructed in the 1730s for Ernst Johann Von Biron. The palace empty until the 1760’s. In 1919, the Palace suffered severe damages as a result of the Latvian War of Independence. At one point, the palace was used as a school. In 1972, the Rundale Palace was established as a museum and is now a major tourist destination. -
Portrait of Constance-Gabrielle-Magdeleine Bonnier de la Mosson as Diana
Jean-Marc Nattier
Date: 1742
Format: Oil on Canvas
Height: 1,295 mm (50.98)
Width: 968 mm (38.11)
Current Location: The J. Paul Getty Museum
Jean-Marc Nattier was born in Paris France was an aspiring history painter. He received instruction from his father and uncle. In 1703, he enrolled in the Royal Academy and created a series of drawing of Marie De Médicis painting cycle. However due to the financial collapse of 1720, Nattier had to devote himself almost exclusively to portraiture. As a re -
And Has Not Sawney Too His Lord and Whore?
Hubert –Francois Gravelot
Medium: Copper Engraving
Height: 280 mm
Width: 330 mm
Date: 1743
Location: British Museum, London
Hubert-Francois Bourguignon or Gravelot (March 1699 – April 1773) was a French engraver born in Paris but later moved to London in 1732. Gravelot was a central figure in the British Style Rococo. -
Marriage á la mode
William Hogarth
Medium: Oil on canvas
Height: 70 cm
Width: 91 cm
Date: 1745
William Hogarth (November 1697 – October 1764) was an English artist and editorial cartoonist. Hogarth has been credited with creating sequential art. He works of art included realistic portraiture to comic strip series.
Location: National Gallery, London U.K Height: 70 cm
Width: 91 cm
Date: 1745
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Clarissa / The History of a Young Lady
Samuel Richardson
Medium: Epistolary Novel
Date: 1748
The History of a Young Lady, or simply Clarissa is one of the longest novels every written in English. The letters followed a beauty tragic heroine who searches for virtue but is constantly hindered by her family. As a result of her grandfather leaving her a substantial inheritance, she is now wealthy but she longs to be part of the aristocracy. -
The Radcliffe Camera
Watch Architect: James Gibbs
Built: 1737 - 1749
Location: Oxford, England
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling is a comic novel about a abandoned child, Tom Jones who is discovered by a kind wealthy landowner. Tom Jones becomes a kindhearted by flawed person who falls for Sophia Western but their union is opposed by their father because of his status as a bastard child. -
The History of Tom Jones, a foundling
Author: Henry Fielding
Medium: Novel
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Monument to Sir John Dutton
John Michael Rysbrack
Medium: Marble
Date: 1749
John Dutton (1595 – 1657) was a politician who served in the House of Commons between 1624 and 1644. During the English Civil war, he sided with the royalist. He earned his Bachelors of Arts from Exeter College in Oxford. -
Mr. and Mrs. Andrews
Thomas Gainsborough
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1748 – 1749
Height: 70 cm
Width: 119 cm
Thomas Gainsborough painted this scene when he was twenty one years old. Robert Andrews was a member of the land gentry which is probably the reason the scene depicts the amount of land that it does.
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Part of Westminster Bridge
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Date: 1750
Location: Tate Gallery, London
The Westminster Bridge is a pedestrian and road bridge over the Thames that connects Westminster and Lambeth in London. Westminster was built between 1739 and 1750 and it was financed by public funds.
