Week 12 - Eighteenth Century Art

David, Antiochus and Stratonice, 1774

-Won the prix de rome for David finally

-Death scene, popular for davids work

-Court physician on the left

-king is cast in shadow, and his young wife is at the foot of the bed

-Antiochus is sick

-Stratonice is the woman in white

David, The Funeral of Patroclus, 1778

-Connection to the Iliad by Homer

-Light not realistic

Jacques-Louis David, Oath of the Horatii, 1785

-3 best warriors from rome battle it out

-neoclassical because: the painting is stoic, based on a roman event, the architecture

Jacques-Louis David, The Death of Socrates, 1787

Jacques-Louis David, Portrait of Antoine-Laurent Lavoisier and His Wife, 1788

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Jacques-Louis David

-David & the Prix de Rome

-Everyone wanted him to be an architect

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Benjamin West, Agrippina Landing at Brundisium with the Ashes of Germanicus, 1768

-Commissioned by the archbishop of york

-Germanicus was killed by tiberius out of jealousy

-bringing her husbands ashes back to rome

Benjamin West, The Death of General Wolfe, 1770

-Battlefield in canada, french and indian war

-turned a recent event into a heroic history painting

-received poorly at first, “in poor taste”, needed to be under the guise of ancient history

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John Singleton Copley, Mr. & Mrs. Izard, 1775

-Ralph izard is a wealthy merchant and they went to italy and sought out copley when he was there to get a portrait painted

John Singleton Copley, Watson and the Shark, 1778

-He wanted to create more history paintings

-Brook watson (the person in the water)

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