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Fine Art 1700-1750
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A Tale of a Tub by Jonathan Swift
A Tale of a Tub was the first major work written by Jonathan Swift, and perhaps his most difficult and masterful satire. The Tale is a prose parody divided into sections each delving into the morals and ethics of English. Composed earlier, it was eventually published in 1704. It was long regarded as a satire on religion, and has notably been attacked for that. -
Blenheim Palace England
Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England. Architect Sir John Vanbrugh 1705-1722. It is only non-royal non-episcopal country house in England to hold the title of palace. It was originally a reward to John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. In the English Baroque style, it has been a family home (birthplace of Winston Churchill), a mausoleum and a national monument. It was the home of the Churchill (later Spencer-Churchill) family for the next 300 years. -
Handel's opera Agrippa
https://youtu.be/iVR45kKOF_8
George Frideric Handel's opera Agrippa composed for the 1709–10 Venice carnival season; It premiered in at the Teatro San Giovanni Grisostomo on December 26, 1709. It was immediately successful and ran for series of 27 performances. Observers praised the quality of the music, much of which had, as was the custom at the time, been borrowed and adapted from other works, including the works of other composers. -
Irises at Yatsuhashi
Ogata Kōrin , Irises at Yatsuhashi (Eight Bridges), after 1709 Edo period Japan. Pair of six-panel folding screens; ink and color on gold leaf on paper based on a love story. The vertical irises contrast to the angular bridge running diagonally across both screens Yatsuhashi is a place where a stream branches into eight channels, each with its own bridge. The first syllable of each line of the love poem forms the Japanese word for irises (kakitsubata). -
St Paul's Cathedral, London,
St Paul's Cathedral, London, 1710, sits on Ludgate Hill at the highest point of the City of London. It was designed in the English Baroque style by Sir Christopher Wren. Its construction was part of a major rebuilding program after the Great Fire of London. Its dome, framed by the spires of Wren's City churches, dominated the skyline for 300 years. At 365 feet high, it was the tallest building in London from 1710 to 1962. The dome is among the highest in the world. -
Bach "Brandenburg" Concertos
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1711-1721 Johann Sebastian Bach "Brandenburg" Concertos six works lighter side of Bach's genius starting a new movement of the chamber orchestra. Bach thought of them as a set At the time he wrote them, Bach was the music director in Coethen, where he was composing music for the court. 150 years later, Bach's biographer Philipp Spitta called them "Brandenburg" Concertos. All six concertos require a different combination of instruments and skilled soloists. -
Still Life with Flowers and Fruit
Jan van Huysum (Dutch Baroque) Still Life with Flowers and Fruit 1715
The artist learned the composition and technique of Jan de Heem and organized his bouquets with circular rhythms that draw the eye in. He included flowers that do not bloom at the same time. Van Huysum also placed insects into his bouquet and suggested dewdrops on petals and leaves. He often illuminated blossoms at the back and silhouetted darker foreground leaves. -
Pilgrimage to Cythera
Pilgrimage to Cythera, Antoine Watteau 1717 Rococo (variety of titles) is an allegorical love story. Cythera was the mythological birthplace of Aphrodite, Greek goddess of love. Watteau depicts an island of love, a paradise of enchanting landscapes inviting acts of love with cupids visible above. Historians still debate whether the pilgrims are on their way to the island or in fact preparing to leave. -
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe’s fictional work The Life and Strange Adventures of Robinson Crusoe was published April 25, 1719. The book, about a shipwrecked sailor who spends 28 years on a deserted island, is based on the experiences of shipwreck victims and of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who spent four years on a small island off the coast of South America in the early 1700s. -
The Four Seasons
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The Four Seasons 1725 by Antonio Vivaldi is four violin concerti each giving a musical expression to a season of the year. It was published with accompanying poems and is noticeably one of the earliest and most-detailed examples of program music. In the middle section of the Spring concerto, where the goatherd sleeps, a barking dog is simulated by the viola section. -
Gulliver's Travels
1726 Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. In Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of Several Ships, commonly known as Gulliver's Travels, is a prose satire by Irish writer and clergyman Jonathan Swift. The book is primarily a satire on human nature but also parodies the "travelers' tales" of the era. It is Swift's best known full-length work, and a classic of English literature. It has never been out of print. -
Bach St Matthew's Passion
https://youtu.be/ZgA6twxoLRM
April 11, 1727 St. Matthew's Passion is a sacred oratorio written by Johann Sebastian Bach in for solo voices, double choir and double orchestra. It sets chapters 26 and 27 of the Gospel of Matthew to music, with interspersed chorales and arias. It is one of the masterpieces of classical sacred music. It is the second of two Passion settings by Bach that have survived in their entirety, the first being the St John Passion, first performed in 1724. -
Pope's poetry Essay on Man
Alexander Pope's poetry Essay on Man 1732-44. It is concerned with the natural order God intends for man. Pope's optimistic philosophy became very popular throughout England and the rest of Europe. Pope created a system of ethics which he chose to express in poetry. "Know then thyself, presume not God to scan
The proper study of Mankind is Man." -
Neptune Calming the Waves
Neptune Calming the Waves by Lambert- Sigisbert Adam, 1733. It is a Rococo marble sculpture. It shows the influence of Bernini's earlier Baroque style. Neptune's pose is dynamic. The suggestion of wind is seen in his hair and the drapery. His expression and stance, holding the trident is filled with authority. -
Chardin, Kitchen Maid
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin, Kitchen Maid 1738.This is a simple image in the Genre category of the ordinary life of ordinary people. It simply shows a kitchen maid pausing for a moment in her work. Her expression is neither sadness nor joy. The moment is frozen in time and timeless. -
Salon de la Princesse
1740 Salon de la Princesse, Hotel de Soubise. Germain Boffrand Typical of the lavish Rococo interior design. French royals moved from Versailles to Paris after the death of Louis XIV in 1715. Their town houses (French: hôtels) had small decorated room called Salons for intimate social gatherings of the upper class. Hôtel de Soubise's interiors were Boffrand's last major work for the Prince de Rohan and his wife Marie Sophie de Courcillon. -
Royal Theater
The Teatro Regio ('Royal Theatre') is a prominent opera house and opera company in Turin, Italy. The theater was opened on 26 December 1740 with Francesco Feo's opera Arsace. It was a extravagantly building with seating for 1,500 and with 139 boxes located on five tiers plus a gallery. -
Jonathan Edward's
July 8, 1741. Jonathan Edwards' Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God was a famous sermon of the Great Awakening. Edwards' message addressed sinners condemned to hell unless they turned to Christ and trusted in His grace. It was also criticized in its time. While at Yale, Edwards had been convinced of the Calvinist doctrine that all humans are sinners, but Edwards viewed God as a caring father wanting to save his children rather than as a tyrant. -
Handel’s Messiah
https://youtu.be/AZTZRtRFkvk
April 13, 1742, George Friedrich Handel’s Messiah premieres in Dublin, Ireland. Handel’s Messiah oratorio has become a Christmas tradition but it was not originally intended as a piece of Christmas music. Its opening was during Lent and not in a church but in a secular concert hall. It remains one of the best-known musical works of the Baroque period. Handel based it on the scholarly writings of Charles Jennens and composed the score in an amazing 24 days. -
Mercury Attaching his Wings
Mercury Attaching his Wings by Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, 1744. Pigalle's marble Rococo statue in the round was created as an admission piece to the Academy in 1744. The pose suggests that the messenger god is ready for take-off. There is vitality in the figure that is an allegory of speed. The work is characteristic of the Rococo style in its allusion to mythology and dedication to classical form. -
Hogarth visual satire
1742-46 William Hogarth was the master of visual satire. His works The Rake's Progress, The Harlot's Progress, and Marriage a la Mode each represent a series of paintings or etchings that speak to the depravity of London society in that era. The artworks appeal is in their skillfully detailed depth of humor and they were exceedingly popular -
Canaletto landscape
The Molo from the Basin of San Marco, Venice, by Canaletto, c. 1747-1750. Giovanni Antonio Canal, better known as Canaletto, was an Italian painter of landscapes, particularly of Venice. He also did etchings. His expansive Italian landscapes were extremely popular among English and European patrons, so much so that he traveled to England to paint landscapes there. To his disappointment, the English were not as interested in their own environment as the exotic view of foreign areas.
