CA 167

38 cards   |   Total Attempts: 182
  

Cards In This Set

Front Back
Question 1
Rigaud, Louis XIV (1701) Content:
  • Wealth (fashion, accessories)
  • Sword: power, politics
  • Fleur de lis: France, French monarch
Context:
  • Youth: control, power
  • "L'etat, c;est moi": I am the state
  • France: fashionable, feminized
  • Conscious of appearance as a tool of control
  • Carefully controlling body
  • Strength lies in elegance
  • Art became politicized early on in their culture
  • Power through beauty
  • Art/beauty = France
  • Wanted to differentiate himself from other rulers: legacy
  • Order/beauty = power (embedded in French culture)
  • Excess of display: part of power system
Question 2
Chardin, The Governess
Question 3
Boucher, The Birth of Venus
Question 4
Boucher, The Meeting
Question 5
David, Belisarius Begging Alms
Question 6
David, The Oath of the Horatii
Question 7
Vigee-LeBrun, Marie Antoinette with Her Children
Question 8
David, Lictors Returning to Brutus the Bodies of His Sons
Question 9
Blake, Songs of Innocence
Question 10
*Part of a collection of pieces
Gilpin, On Picturesque Beauty
Question 11
David, Death of Marat
Question 12
Blake, Songs of Experience
Question 13
David, Intervention of the Sabine Women
Question 14
David, Napoleon at the Saint-Bernard Pass
Question 15
Gros, Napoleon in the Plague House at Jaffa