ARTS OF THE NEO-CLASSIC AND ROMANTIC PERIODS
Cards (7)
- This masterpiece by Jacques-Louis David portrays the murdered body of French revolutionary martyr Jean-Paul Marat.
- It depicts a scene where the three Horatii brothers are all willing to sacrifice their lives for the good of Rome. It also shows the brothers saluting their father with their swords drawn out for them.
- It is a marble sculpture by Antonio Canova portraying the relationship of Psyche of Cupid.
- This portrait by Jean Louis Theodore Gericault portrays the victims of a contemporary shipwreck. The people on this raft were French immigrants bound to West Africa.
- It is a fine example of neoclassical architecture. It designs are inspired by ancient Greece and Rome. It is made by William Thornton.
- This artwork by Fransisco Goya portrays Cronus (Saturn) fearing that he would be overthrown by one of his children so he ate one upon their birth.
- This painting by Eugene Delacroix commemorates the July Revolution of 1830 which toppled King Charles X of France. A woman holding the flag of the French Revolution personifies Liberty and leads the people forward over the bodies of the fallen.