The Classical Era (ca. 1750-1800) History 104 / February 8, 2013

The Classical Era (ca. 1750-1800)History 104 / February 8, 2013

Classical discoveries: the English in Italy

Classical architecture: the Mansion House, London

Inside the Mansion House

Classical history as inspiration:Jacques-Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii (1784)

Thomas Gainsborough,The Morning Walk

(c. 1785)

Sir Henry Raeburn

The Reverend Robert Walker Skating on Duddingston Loch

(1784)

Joseph Wright, Sir Brooke Boothby (1781)

Vauxhall Gardens, London

Flashback: the elaborate patterns of a baroque garden

An English landscape garden: calculated undulations of nature

The English Garden, Munich

Louise Elisabeth Vigéet-Lebrun(1755-1842)

Portrait of Madame d’Aguesseau (c. 1770)

Adolf Ulrik Wertmüller

Marie-Antoinetteand her Children

in the Parc de Trianon(1785)

Louise Elisabeth Vigéet-Lebrun

Marie-Antoinette with her children

(1787)

Joseph Haydn(1732-1809)

Haydn in the years of his London triumph

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791)

Sonata Form:Symphony No. 40,

1st movement

Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro

:sly, subversive

comic opera

Mozart’s The Magic Flute:Light fantasy for a popular audience

Papageno/Papagena duet

The Queen of the Night’s aria – “Der Hölle Rache”