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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
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.
