1700s
6 posts
The Death of Socrates
Painting · Jacques-Louis David
David's The Death of Socrates (1787) is a manifesto of Neoclassicism: the philosopher reaches for the hemlock mid-argument, still teaching as he dies.Crosses Neoclassicism × Painting × Socrates, an ar
A Man Offering Gifts at the Altar of Venus
Stipple engraving · Francesco Bartolozzi
Francesco Bartolozzi (1727-1815) was among the most celebrated engravers of the eighteenth century. Born in Florence, he settled in London in 1764, became a founding member of the Royal Academy in 176
Louis XIV in Coronation Robes
Painting (oil on canvas) · Hyacinthe Rigaud
Painted in 1701, Rigaud's official portrait of Louis XIV is the canonical image of European absolute monarchy at its rhetorical peak. Louis is dressed in the regalia of the coronation ceremony: the bl
The Sleep of Reason Produces Monsters
Etching (aquatint) · Francisco Goya
Plate 43 of Goya's Los Caprichos, etched between 1797 and 1799 and published in 1799. A man, a self-portrait of Goya as the engraver, slumps asleep across a writing desk, surrounded by owls, bats, and
The Nightmare
Painting (oil on canvas) · Henry Fuseli
Painted in 1781, Fuseli's The Nightmare is the founding image of Gothic-Romantic visualization of dream and the unconscious. A young woman lies sleeping across a bed, her body arched backwards in unre
The Death of Marat
Painting (oil on canvas) · Jacques-Louis David
Jean-Paul Marat was murdered on the thirteenth of July 1793 by Charlotte Corday, a young woman from Caen who had travelled to Paris specifically to kill him. He suffered from a severe and disfiguring
