ARTH 112 1st Edition Lecture 29 Paladian Architecture Richard Boyle Lord Burlington View of Cheswick House 1724 29 Villa Capra Andrea Palladio 1565 90 Cube shaped with temple fronts reminiscent of antiquity sticking out Key hole shapes allow wind to pass through but keep the sun out Walls surrounding stairs also function to keep out the sun Various allegorical themed frescos line the inside There is an oculus eye at the top of the dome Historical and Romantic Painting No Rococo pursuit of love no direct focus on religion Benjamin West The Death of General Wolf 1770 o Attempts to portray a heroic death of General Wolf o Adapts religious structureChrist like presentation o Native American nonsensically added would not have been there but Europeans had an interest in seeing them Psychoanalytic paintings John Henry Fuseli The Nightmare 1781 War paintings dreams often painting Pre Freud but very Freudian o Incubus Appears in dreams symbolic male has sex with the female as she sleeps o Oculus Also appears in dreams symbolic Horse with white eyes apparently blinded but its eyes are glowing Disturbing nightmarish strong sexual overtones erotic threatening unsettling William Blake Newton 1795 1805 Used a print making technique that he finished with ink and water color John Singleton Copley Watson and the Shark 1778 Painting depicts a person story of Sir Watson who had fallen out of a boat While in the water he was attacked by a shark and lost his foot Pose based on the Borghese Warrior sculpture Monocular perspective Heroic Style Paintings Jacques Louis David Napoleon Crossing the Saint Bernard 1800 Compared to Hannibal and other heroes before him Painted because the revolution had failed Crossing the alps was no small task Antoine Jean Gros Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa 1804 Another heroic painting coming in to visit and touching them even at the risk of infection References the story of Jesus the undoubting Thomas Calls upon orientalism exotic themes from the east Theodore Gericault The Raft of the Medusa 1818 19 Disaster paintings are important Specifically calls upon the errors of those in power Enormous painting 23ft across Captain of the ship did not actually know how to captain a ship The people needed to build a raft and stayed many days adrift There was cannibalism 2 3 of the people died Figures remind one of Michelangelo and Caravaggio romantic compositions Show people in the various stages of suffering
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