Rococo
a style of architecture and decoration that originated in France in
the early 18th century, characterized by elaborate but graceful,
light, ornamentation, often containing asymmetrical motifs.
Enlightenment
is also referred to as The Age of Reason, a time period that stems
from the awakening of European interest in science in the seventeenth
century and ends with the unreason of the French Revolution at the end
of the eighteenth century.
Curiatii
were male triplets from Alba Longa and of the same age as the Horatii.
Jacques Louis David
was an influential French painter in the Neoclassical style,
considered to be the preeminent painter of the era. In the 1780s his
cerebral brand of history painting marked a change in taste away from
Rococo frivolity toward a classical austerity and severity, heightened
feeling[1] harmonizing with the moral climate of the final years of
the Ancien R�gime.
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 Ancient
Greece or Ancient Rome.
Cornelia and her Treasures
treats the theme of virtue with the example of Cornelia
presenting her own sons as her jewels.
Romanticism
was an artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated
in Europe toward the end of the 18th century
�good mother�
for she considered her children to be her finestjewels
fete galante
a representation, in art, of elegantly dressed groups at play in a
rural or parklike setting.
Grand Tour
was the traditional trip of Europe undertaken by mainly upper-class
European young men of means, or those of more humble origin who could
find a sponsor.
Cupid & Psyche
Aphrodite was jealous of Psyche's beauty, so she sent her son Eros to
shoot her with one of his arrows and cause her to fall in love with
the ugliest many in the world. Eros buggered up, and as he beheld her
sleeping form he was so stunned by her beauty that he pricked himself
on one of his own arrows and fell deeply in love.
Boston Massacre
it known as the Incident on King Street by the British, was an
incident on March 5, 1770, in which British Army soldiers killed five
male civilians and injured six others.
History painting
it is a term used to describe paintings that focus on a serious
narrative or include exemplary actions.
arabesque
an ornamental design consisting of intertwined flowing lines,
originally found in Arabic or Moorish decoration
Jean Paul Marat
He was a physician, radical political theorist and scientist best
known for his career in France as a radical journalist and politician
during the French Revolution.