Blenheim Palace
John Vanbrugh
- Baroque architecture
- features similar to St. Peter's and Versailles
- Bizarre placements, kitchen and dining room 400 y apart
- commissioned by the government
- Projecting pavilions and extended colonades
Grace at Table Chardin
- Simple interiors and still lifes
- "hushed lighting and mellow color"
- honest, lower-class
- youngest in praying
Pantheon Jacques-Germain
Monticello Thomas Jefferson
The Death of the Marat Jacques Louis David
- Located in Paris
- Also called Ste. Genevieve
- Romans columns
- Colonaded dome similar to St. Peter's
- Corinthian capitals
- Combination of Greek and Classical
- Saw neoclassicism as a style that represented the democratic U. S.
- Similar facade to the Villa Rotonda
- Located in Charlottesville VA
- After European trip Jefferson changed design to what is seen today
- David believed subject matter should be didactic
- Compact composition
- Subject is a personal friend of David who was stabbed to death
- details: knife, wound, blood letter are placed for emphasis on the death
- neoclassical
Ancient of Days William Blake
- combination of Neoclassicism and sublime Romanticism
- highly individualized
- Quote "When he set a compass upon the face of the sky: Proverbs 8:22-23,27-30
- body like Michelangelo's David
Strawberry Hill
Horace Walpole
- "Gothic" style
- Terror in garden designs
- many different styles
- led way to Romanticism
Rococo
1700-1800
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Goya
- the danger of the absence of thoughtful control