CHAPTER 18:
Rococo and the Eighteenth Century
Key Works
Sir William Chambers, Pagoda, Kew Gardens, England, 1761; engraving by William Woollett after J. Kirby, hand-colored by Heath
Germain Boffrand, Salon de la Princess, Hôtel de Soubise, Paris, c. 1740
Joseph Wright, An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump, 1768
Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717
Antoine Watteau, Gilles, undated
François Boucher, Venus Consoling Love, 1751
Jean-Honoré Fragonard, The Swing, 1766
Hyacinthe Rigaud, Louis XIV, 1701
Rosalba Carriera, Louis XV, 1751
Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun, Marie Antoinette and her Children, 1788
Thomas Gainsborough, Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan, 1785 – 1787
William Hogarth, Marriage à la Mode II, 1745; engraving by B. Baron after an oil painting of 1743
William Hogarth, Time Smoking a Picture, 1761
Balthasar Neumann, the Residenz, Würzburg, Germany, 1719 – 1753
Staircase of the Residenz showing the ceiling fresco of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Würzburg, Germany, 1752 – 1753
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, The Investiture of Bishop Harold, a detail of the ceiling frescoes in the Kaisersaal, the Residenz, Würzburg, Germany, 1751 – 1752
Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, Wallpavillon, the Zwinger, Dresden, Germany, 1711 – 1722
Dominikus Zimmermann, Wieskirche, Bavaria, 1745 – 1754
Richard Boyle (Earl of Burlington), Chiswick House, near London, begun 1725
Robert Adam, fireplace niche, Osterley Park House, Middlesex, England, begun 1761
Horace Walpole, Strawberry Hill, Twickenham, near London, 1749 – 1777
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, La Fontaine, first exhibited 1733
Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, Pipe and Jug, undated
Angelica Kauffmann, Amor and Psyche
John Singleton Copley, Paul Revere, c. 1768 – 1770
Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, c. 1770
Maps, Diagrams, and Projections
Map of Western Europe, c. 1740
Plan of the Weiskirche
Plan of Cheswick House
Map of North American settlements in the 18th century
Key Terms
chancel
chinoiserie
fleur-de-lys
krater
hôtel
impasto
molding
pagoda
stucco
trompe l’oeil
Videos
Art of the Western World, 4-Pack
Volume 3: An age of Reason
55 min, VM
Civilisation, Volume 5
The Pursuit of Happiness & The Smile of Reason
94 min, 1970, VM
Colonial American History Through Art
18 min, Clearvue
Eighteenth-Century Art and Music
35 min, Clearvue
Fragonard
7 min, 1975, Britannica
History Through Art: The Enlightenment
42 min, Clearvue
John Singleton Copley
6 min, 197?, Britannica
The London of William Hogarth (B&W)
27 min, 1956, IFB
Antoine Watteau
18 min, 1991, AP
CD-ROMs
History Through Art: The Enlightenment
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