the classical era (ca. 1750-1800) history 104 / february 8, 2013
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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”