Chapter 29 Homework

18th Century Art in Europe and the Americas

The following questions should be answered and turned in no later than Monday, March 4.

1. How does Rococo art differ from art based on classical norms?
2. How do scientific discoveries impact on art during the 18th century?
3. How did Hogarth and Greuze criticize culture in hopes of improving it?
4. Why were the discovery of the ruins of Pompeii and Herculaneum important to art?
5. How did Neoclassical artists rebel against Rococo art?
6. When did the Romantic Movement in England begin?
7. What impact did the French Revolution have on art?
8. What was Winckelmann’s influence on art?
9. How did art develop in North America in the 18th century?
10. What are the sources for Jefferson’s Monticello?


Artists to be familiar with in this chapter (you do not need to write a response to this section):

• Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
• Jean-Antoine Watteau
• Francois Boucher
• Jean Honore Fragonard
• Canaletto
• Antonio Canova
• Horace Walpole
• William Hogarth
• Sir Joshua Reynolds
• Thomas Gainsborough
• Joseph Wright
• Angelica Kauffmann
• Benjamin West
• John Henry Fuseli
• William Blake
• Chardin
• Greuze
• Marie Louis Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
• Adelaide Labille-Guiard
• Jacques Louis David
• Jean Antoine Houdon
• John Singleton Copley