Neoclassicism is an art movement born out of the advancements made during the Enlightenment. This movement came from a collective of people deciding that they wanted to create art that reflected their new ideals of logic and morality. Themes from antiquity, particularly ancient Greece during this period, become the inspiration for many. This is because ancient Greek and Roman art contained examples of politics, morality, and philosophy. They also believed the classical past to have been a time when humanistic values were alive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Meng’s Parnassus<\/em> is an early work in the Neoclassicism movement and Mengs himself was foundational in the creation of this style. In this work, we see the god Apollo on the top of Parnassus, which is a sacred mountain in Greece. Here he is surrounded by the muses since he is the god of music and poetry. Mengs uses a very balanced color pallet with a lot of primary colors, as opposed to the use of pastels in the previous Rococo period. This work is extremely similar to Raphael’s Parnassus<\/em> in the Vatican. They have the same structured composition with Apollo as the central figure sounded by the muses. Meng’s Apollo is based on the Apollo Belvedere<\/em> to highlight Meng’s knowledge of ancient art. This work is not at all painterly and uses clear, well-defined lines. This is in stark contrast with Rococo art which was often extremely painterly, such as in A Pilgrimage to Cythera<\/em>. Though the light-hearted topic of the scene is very similar to Rococo art, which highlights this work as a transitional work from Rococo to Neoclassicism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Neoclassicism is an art movement born out of the advancements made during the Enlightenment. This movement came from a collective of people deciding that they wanted to create art that reflected their new ideals of logic and morality. Themes from antiquity, particularly ancient Greece during this period, become the inspiration for many. This is because […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18547,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18547"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2328"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2329,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2328\/revisions\/2329"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}