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The Enlightenment Neoclassical Art Enlightenment The Age of Reason Enciclopedists / Philosophes Diderot Reason -- a perfect society built on common sense and tolerance Think back on the baroque and work out a definition of the term What does the term Neoclassical evoke for you? Characteristics Order and Harmony Simplicity of shape and exactness of proportion Light Gardens Society and Utopianism Ordering creation Intellectual rather than emotional or spiritual Classicism Restraint, good sense, decorum, good taste, correctness Rococo to Neoclassical (1760-1840/50) As symmetry was gradually introduced into the lavish ornamental motifs of the Rococo style, so the Neoclassicist ideas slowly began to spread. The new aesthetic revealed a reaction against the excesses of Rococo ornamentation in favour of what was seen as the noble simplicity of antiquity. Many Neoclassical ideas were founded in the scientific ideals of the French Encyclopaedists, who believed in the enhancement and promotion of public morality through art. ? Classical history and mythology provided a large part of the subject matter of Neoclassical works. Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825)  Most prominent and influential painter of the Neo-classical movement in France. In the 1780s he created a style of austere and ethical painting that captured the moral climate of the last years of the ancien régime. As an active revolutionary, he put his art at the service of the new French Republic and for a time was virtual dictator of the arts. He was imprisoned after the fall from power of Maximilien de Robespierre but on release became captivated by the personality of Napoleon I The artist must be a philosopher and have no other guide except the torch of reason. — J.-L. David Montesquieu Charles Louis de Secondat 1689-1755 Noble background Educated in science and history Became a lawyer Considered, along with John Locke, as the ideological co-founder of the American Constitution Works Masterpiece: T