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FRENCH BAROQUE TIMELINE 1 Meaning Clusters 1713 War of Spanish Succession ends. France's expansion in Europe comes to a halt. 1715 Louis XV succeeds Louis XIV as king of France 1717 Handel's Water Music first performed on Thames 1718 New Orleans founded by the French 1721 Death of Watteau 1727 Death of Isaac Newton 1740 Frederick the Great assumes Prussian throne. Richardson's Pamela, Virtue Rewarded published 1742 Handel's Messiah first performed 1745 Madame de Pompadour becomes mistress of Louis XV Source NGA Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

INDEX Art 5 1. French Baroque Timeline 1 444 2. French Baroque 1 333 3. French Neoclassicism 1 333 4. French Neoclassicism Timeline 444 5. French Baroque Timeline 2 444 1748 Excavation begins of Roman Pompeii 1751 First volume appears of Diderot's Encyclopedia 1758 Voltaire completes Candide 1762 Rousseau publishes Social Contract Mozart, age six, begins tour Catherine the Great begins rule in Russia 1763 Seven Years War ends. France loses most colonial possessions 1770 Death of Boucher 1774 Louis XVI becomes king of France Goethe publishes Sorrows of Young Werther 1776 Adam Smith publishes Wealth of Nations American War of Independence begins

FRENCH BAROQUE 1 Meaning Clusters Louis XIV desired to glorify his dignity and the magnificence of France. French artists expressed a distinct style that rivaled the exuberance of the Italian baroque. The history and landscape paintings of Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain are characterized by symmetry and clarity of form. They organized their compositions to demonstrate the power of reason in French culture. After Louis XIV’s death French society moved from the court at Versailles to Paris. Elegant interiors were decorated with sinuously curved and arabesque motifs. Watteau incorporated the rococo S curve in paintings such as the fêtes galantes. It showed pleasure-seeking ladies and gentlemen socializing in a pastoral setting. François Boucher indicated the taste of the mid-eighteenth century in his idealized depictions of courtly beauty.

MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS Louis XIV__________________________ ___________________________________ French_____________________________ ___________________________________ _____________landscape______________ ___________________________________ ________________symmetry___________ ___________________________________ ____________compositions____________ ___________________________________ ____________society_________________ ___________________________________ _____________decorated______________ ___________________________________ Watteau____________________________ ___________________________________ ________pleasure-seeking_____________ ___________________________________ François Boucher____________________ ___________________________________ Source NGA Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM 1 Meaning Clusters Even before the French Revolution popular taste turned away from lighthearted subjects of the rococo. Artists sought noble themes of virtue and sacrifice from the history of ancient Greece and Rome. They painted with restraint and discipline. The austere clarity of the neoclassical style expressed certitude and moral truth. Neoclassicism became linked to revolution. Jacques-Louis David artistically served the propaganda programs of revolutionary factions and later of Napoleon. As a young man David worked in the delicate style of François Boucher. Ancient Roman sculpture and the paintings of Caravaggio and Poussin influenced him. He adopted their strong contrasts of color, clear tones and firm contours. David gave his heroic figures sculptural mass. He arranged frieze-like compositions meant to inspire his fellow citizens.

MEMORY TRIGGERS TESTS ________French Revolution___________ ___________________________________ Artists_____________________________ ___________________________________ ________________restraint____________ ___________________________________ ___________clarity___________________ ___________________________________ Neoclassicism_______________________ ___________________________________ _______________propaganda__________ ___________________________________ _____________delicate________________ ___________________________________ ___________sculpture________________ ___________________________________ ________contrasts___________________ ___________________________________ David______________________________ ___________________________________ Source NGA Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

FRENCH NEOCLASSICISM TIMELINE Meaning Clusters 1789 French Revolution begins 1793 Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette executed. Reign of Terror 1796 Jenner introduces smallpox vaccine 1798 Napoleon campaigns in Egypt. Wordsworth and Coleridge publish Lyrical Ballads 1799 Napoleon elected consul 1801 Chateaubriand publishes Atala. Lamarck studies role of acquired characteristics in evolution 1803 U.S. buys territory from France in Lousiana Purchase 1804 Napoleon crowns himself emperor. Beethoven completes Eroica Symphony 1808 Goethe publishes Faust, Part I 1812 Byron publishes Childe Harold's Pilgrimage 1815 Napleon defeated at Waterloo.

Louis XVIII assumes crown 1818 Mary Shelley publishes Frankenstein 1823 death of Prud'hon 1825 death of David 1828 death of Houdon 1830 Louis Philippe proclaimed French "Citizen King" 1832 Berlioz completes Symphonie Fantastique 1842 death of Vigée-Lebrun 1848 Louis Philippe abdicates. Louis Napoleon elected French president 1852 Second Empire begins. Louis Napoleon proclaimed Napoleon III 1857 Pasteur studies fermentation. It leads to pasteurization process 1862 Hugo publishes Les Misérables 1867 death of Ingres Source NGA Speed Learning format by Carl Peterson ©2005

FRENCH BAROQUE TIMELINE 2

1777

Lavoisier proves

air contains

oxygen and nitrogen

1779

Death of Chardin

1781

Kant publishes

Critique of Pure Reason

1783

Treaty of Versailles

ends American War

of Independence

1789

French Revolution begins

with storming

of the Bastille

1806

Death of Fragonard

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