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Jacques-Louis David

(1748-1825).

Some Interesting Facts:

-His father was killed in a duel.

-He has a facial scar.

-Sent many people to the guillotine

Marie Antoinette:

Most Famous Works:Death of Socrates. Oil on

canvas, 1787.Death of Marat. Oil on canvas,

1793.

Thomas Jefferson:

Neo-Classicism Architecture

Neo-Classicism vs. Classicism

Neo-Classicism: US Capital Building

Classicism: Villa Rotonda, Palladio, 1591

Influences: Palladio’s Villa Rotonda

Neo-Classicism Architecture:

Monticello Virginia University

Virginia State Capitol Building:

Our President lives in a Neo-Classical Building

Theatre Satire

Theatre Satire Can be in the form of irony or exaggeration

Used as a response to Renaissance (No order)

Wanted to regain ORDER (GREEK & ROMAN CLASSICISM)

After the Johnson division neoclassicism declined

However simple way of writing and many grammar rules are still in effect today (ROMANTICISM)

Example Samuel Johnson (1709-1784) GREATEST

DICTIONARY OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE (His contribution to literature of that time)

London Is a poem by Johnson imitating the Juvenal’s Third Satire.

Satire Classical literature (1750-1820) used a style of literature

known as satire

Satire is a form of writing that uses wit/humor to comment on society and to send a message.

“First make people laugh, then make them think”

Uses irony and ridicule as a way of focusing on issues.

Satire as we know it today!

Jonathon Swift

Born in Dublin, Ireland

Satirist, political essayist, pamphlet writer

Influenced George Orwell

Benjamin Franklin based Richard from Poor Richard’s almanac off of a persona Swift created.

Literature in the Classical Era

- Jonathon Swift was known for his political satire

- Lot of his work was published anonymously or with a false name

- A Tale of a Tub

- Most famous of all English satire writers

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

Salzburg

Born-27 January 1756

Died– 5 December 1791

Child prodigy

At 17 he was playing in the Royal Court in Vienna the music capitol of the world at the time.

Mozart wrote 41 Symphonies.

Piano No. 21

Ludwig van BeethovenGerman

Born-17 December 1770

Died-26 March 1827

One of the most famous and influential of all composers

At the age of 26, Beethoven began to lose his hearing.

Can't Hear

Joseph Haydn

Austria

Born -31 March 1732

Died -31 May 1809

A lifelong resident of Austria

one of the most celebrated composers in Europe

He was also a close friend of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartteacher of Ludwig van Beethoven.