AP Art History

AP Art History

Chapter 26
Eighteenth Century Art in Europe and North American

Study Guide


North American Art Art Before 1776
  • What contributed to the spread of European Art in the American colonies between the 17th and 18th century/
  • In the Colonies,painting was used to keep what kind of records?
  • What were portrait painters known as?
  • Who is considered to be America's first native born genius?
  • What examples influenced American art during the late 18th and early 19th century?
  • How did the American public view the neoclassical style of painting?
  • Who designed Mount Vernon? How did Mount Vernon reflect the neoclassical style?
  • What Roman temple is reflected in the Virginia State Capitol?


  • Vocabulary
    Terms Terms
    John Singleton Copley
    wattle and daub
    limner    		 clapboard
    John Smibert
    half timber construction

    Rococo

  • Rococo is often seen as a reaction at all levels of society, even among kings and queens to...what?
  • Pictorial themes were often painted or sculpted in rococo residential settings. What was the main narrative taken from classical stories?
  • What is elegant outdoor painting? Include examples.
  • What marketing ideas helped the career of the art dealer Edme-Francois Gersaint?
  • What is pastel chalk? Why did it suit the style of the rococo?
  • Who provided patronage for Francois Boucher?

    Vocabulary
    Terms Terms
    Jean Antoine Watteau
    Francois Boucher
    C-shapes
    Johann Balthasar Neumann
    fete galante
    pastel
    Jean Honore Fragonard
    arabesques    		 volutes
    porcelain
    enamel
    S-shapes
    boiseries
    roccaille
    momento mori
    chinoiseries

    Art in Italy

  • What was the Grand Tour? Who particpated in the Grand Tour?
  • Under what circumstances were women admitted into the French Academy?

    Terms Terms
    pastels
    vedute
    capriccio
    Giovanni Canaletto
    composition
    picturesque    		 Giovanni Piranesi
    Herculaneum and Pompeii
    Anton Raphael Mengs
    Johann Winkelmann
    Antonio Canova

    Revivals and Romanticism in Britain

  • How did Palladio inspire British architects?
  • What is the purpose of landscape architecture?
  • Describe the English Circus House.
  • What kind of painting reflects social lessons?
  • What was the Marriage Contractabout?
  • What writer believed it was arts proper function to "inspire virtue and manners?"
  • How does Thomas Gainsborough's portrait of Mrs. Richard Brinsley Sheridan characterize the new values of the Enlightenment?
  • How did Angelica Kauffmann exemplify the "good mother?"
  • What is the art of the sublime? How did the work of Fuseli illustrate this trend?

    Art in France
  • What building is often called the "Paris Parthenon?
  • Who was Marie Louise Vigee Lebrun?
  • Who was Adelaide Labile Guiard? How did she change the status of women in the Academy?
  • What was David's painting "The Oath of the Horatii about?
  • Why was the above painting considered important to the French Revolution?