In class on Wednesday, we began our discussion of neoclassicism. As we discussed in the previous class, the neoclassicism movement coincided with the publication of the Encyclop\u00e9die, a multivolume reference book that represents the ideals of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was a resurgence in the interest of logic and morality and a prioritization of knowledge. These new ideas resulted in new art as well as a shift towards art movements rather than periods of stylistic trends that defined art in the previous centuries. We learned that a movement is classified by intentional choices artists make somewhat collaboratively.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Neoclassicism was the first of the shifts towards movements rather than periods of style. During this period, there was a revival of interest in classical art and ideals partially field by The Grand Tour where wealthy young men would travel Europe as the last stage of their education. As there was an interest in antiquity, students would often travel to Italy on the Grand Tour which influenced art and style in Western Europe. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
For example, we looked at Chiswick House which William Kent designed for Lord Burlington. Lord Burlington had gone on the Grand Tour and returned to England with inspiration from Roman architecture. He wanted to model the house after Renaissance buildings he saw abroad which were ultimately inspired by antiquity. We compared the Chiswick House to Andrea Palladio’s Villa Rotunda, as the Chiswick House is almost identical to Palladio’s 16th-century work. During the Renaissance, Palladio drew inspiration for his Villa Rotunda from the Pantheon and therefore both the Villa Rotunda and the Chiswick House are drawing from antiquity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In addition to modeling art and architecture directly off Renaissance and Classical works, the Neoclassicism movement involved an interest in revisiting classical ideals. David’s Oath of the Horatii<\/em> is a scene from French classical theater. The scene shows the three Horatii brothers who have been chosen to represent the Romans in their war against the Albans. However while the three brothers are taking their oath to fight, three women in the corner are grieving their inevitable loss, as one of the Horatii brothers is married to an Alban woman. The work ultimately is about morality which is a very neoclassical idea. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In class on Wednesday, we began our discussion of neoclassicism. As we discussed in the previous class, the neoclassicism movement coincided with the publication of the Encyclop\u00e9die, a multivolume reference book that represents the ideals of the Enlightenment. The Enlightenment was a resurgence in the interest of logic and morality and a prioritization of knowledge. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11953,"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\/2334"}],"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\/11953"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2334"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2376,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2334\/revisions\/2376"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/web.colby.edu\/ar112-spring2024\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}