rococo and neoclassicism definitions

academy

an institution whose main objectives include training artists in an academic tradition, ennobling the profession, and holding exhibitions

Exemplum virtutis

a painting that tells a moral tale for the viewer

fete galante

an eighteenth-century French style of painting that depicts the aristocracy walking through a forested landscape

Grand tour

in order to complete their education young Englishmen and Americans in the eighteenth century undertook a journey to Italy to absorb ancient and renaissance sites

pastel

a colored chalk that when mixed with other ingredients produces a medium that has a soft and delicate hue

salon

a government sponsored exhibition of artworks held in Paris in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries