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Tuesday, November 23, 2004
Neo-Classical example
Odalisque in Grisaille, 1824–34
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres and Workshop (French, 1780–1867)
http://www.metmuseum.org/Works_of_Art/viewOnezoom.asp?dep=11&zoomFlag=0&viewmode=1&item=38%2E65
Neo-classicism: mid 18th to early 19th – severe, unemotional form of art harkening back to the style of ancient Greece and Rome; rxn to overbred rococo and emotional baroque; part of general revival of classical thought which was of some importance in the American and French revolutions – Canova, Ingres, Mengs
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