Critical texts - Rococo to Realism

Winkelmann

“In order for us to be great, we must imitate the Greeks”

Reynolds

“Neoclassicism is identified with reason, Romantic with emotion”

Hyde

[The Rococo is traditionally associated with the] “aristocratic ideals of the ancien regime”

Hyde

“the conflict between revolutionary Neoclassicism and the Rococo of the ancien regime is a politicised contest”

Courbet

Realism is the “representation of real and existing things”

Burke

“The Sublime”

Gilpin

“The Picturesque”

Shearer West

“A simple definition belies the complexity of portraiture”

Baudelaire

Artists must paint “The epic side of modern life”

J.L. David

"Art must have grandeur and a moral purpose”

Brookner [on J.L. David]

“His ability to produce a style to meet the needs of a historical moment”

Sheriff

“The institutional patronage of the crown and state gave way to the patronage of private individuals”

Napoleon

“Men are only as great as the monuments they leave behind”

Samuels

“Marble served to elevate its subject matter”

Chare

“By the late eighteenth century oil painting was “firmly established as masculine””

Rousseau

“Women cannot be true citizens of the state, only the personal and the familial”

Said [Orientalism]

“Reiterates European superiority over Oriental backwardness”