HUM-2020 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Mary Wollstonecraft, Triangular Trade, Lictor
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Rococo: odd style, short lived, popular with french autocrats, ornate, frothy, very decorative, used to decorate homes, emphasizes the pursuit of pleasure, travels very little outside france and prussia, dies with marie antoinette. Watteau: rococo painter, not famous during his lifetime. Fetes galantes: painted by watteau, fancy party for the elite, overtones of being slightly naughty. Boucher: rococo painter, painted many portraits of madame de pompadour, some in the nude. Fragonard: rococo painter, best known for rococo, painted madame du barry. Madame du barry: louis xv mistress. The swing: most iconic of all the rococo paintings. Boston tea party: americans throw tea into boston harbor. Neoclassical: conservative, symmetrical, simple lines, crisp, not frothy, stable, balanced and rational, revolt against decadence of rococo. Thomas jefferson: wanted to eliminate rule by divine right. Jacques-louis david: neoclassical painter and romantic painter. Reign of terror: ends in 1794, 5 years.
