AP Euro Unit 4: The Age of Reason
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Unit 4: AP European History Topics
4.1 Contextualizing the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
4.2 The Scientific Revolution
4.5 18th-Century Culture and Arts
4.6 Enlightened and Other Approaches to Power
4.7 Causation in the Age of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Art of Unit 4
NeoClassicism (1750–1850)
Reaction against the extravagance and emotionalism of Baroque and Rococo styles; aligned with Enlightenment ideals of reason, rationality, and moral virtue.
NeoClassicism (1750–1850)
"In 1785 visitors to the Paris Salon (the official art exhibition organized by the Academy of Fine Arts) were transfixed by one painting, Jacques-Louis David’s Oath of the Horatii. It depicts three men, brothers, saluting toward three swords held up by their father as the women behind him grieve—no one had ever seen a painting like it. Similar subjects had always been seen in the Salons before but the physicality and intense emotion of the painting was new and undeniable. The revolutionary painting changed French art but was David also calling for another kind of revolution—a real one?"
-Dr Steven Zucker
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