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Period: to
the art of the first half of the nineteenth century
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IL CANALE GRANDE A SAN VIO
Canaletto is undoubtedly the most outstanding of the 18th-century Venetian view painters -
ROCOCO
is a highly ornamental and theatrical style of decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe l'oeil frescoes to create the illusions of surprise, motion and drama. -
THE BLONDE ODALISQUE
is the title of two paintings by François Boucher -
MADAME DE POMPADOUR
was a member of the French court and was the official chief mistress of Louis XV from 1745 to 1751 -
THE SWING
is an 18th-century oil painting by Jean-Honoré Fragonard in the Wallace Collection in London -
THE LOVE LETTER
is a 17th-century genre painting by Jan Vermeer. -
OATH OF THE HORATII
Oath of the Horatii is a large painting by the French artist Jacques-Louis David painted in 1784 and now on display in the Louvre in Paris. -
THE DEATH OF SOCRATES
is an oil on canvas painted by French painter Jacques-Louis David in 1787. -
FRANCISCO DE GOYA
was a Spanish romantic painter and printmaker. He is considered the most important Spanish artist of the late 18th and early 19th centuries -
NEOCLASSICISM
is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of classical antiquity. -
ROMANTICISM
was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe -
VENUS VICTRIX
is a semi-nude life-size reclining neo-Classical portrait sculpture by the Italian sculptor Antonio Canova -
THE VALPINÇON BATHER
is an 1808 painting by the French Neoclassical artist Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres -
THE THIRD OF MAY
is a painting completed in 1814 by the Spanish painter Francisco Goya, now in the Museo del Prado, Madrid -
WANDERER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG
is an oil painting c. 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich -
THE MASSACRE AT CHIOS
is the second major oil painting by the French artist Eugène Delacroix -
THE RAFT OF THE MEDUSA
is an oil painting of 1818–19 by the French Romantic painter and lithographer Théodore Géricault -
LIBERTY LEADING THE PEOPLE
is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830
