Neoclassical Masterpieces: A Comparative Analysis of David’s Oath of the Horatii and Canova’s Eros and Psyche
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> Name:
Oath of the Horatii / Author:
Jacques-Louis David / Clients: Louis XVI / Date: 1784 / Rel. A Conj: – / Style:
Neoclassicism / Ubi origin: – / Ubi act: the Louvre, Paris / / D -> Medium: Oil Dimensions: 3,30 m x 4,25 m (large) / Short descr: On the left are located in the 3 half brothers and father, and the other women and children. The characters were dressed as ancient Rome / Support: Canvas / FIG-No fig: Fig / / AF–
> Drawing / Color: Drawing / Light: The light of clear insipiració Caravaggiesca, go to the left of the canvas and project shadows of father and brothers to the women / EDC: SIME, order, vertical / line compo: straight line to draw the male and female for smooth and round. Appear diagonals, triangles, rectangles (male) and pyramids (female) / Vista: Linear (enrejolat the ground and side walls) anatomy and propor: The young and the father are the same size and are provided will not be look at the anatomy / Expression: Women abatides and sad and resolute and energetic man / Time: Medium / Color: Bright and clear; predominate shades of red, ocher and gray / brushwork: Fine, as it is meticulous and apurada neoclassicista / Center pictorial: Swords heights (coincides with the physical center) / Plans: Plan 1 (human characters) and 2nd Plan (decorated) / Suits: The red tunic of the father symbolizes passion and blood. They are dressed in ancient Rome / Movement: Women and men do not show true mov mov / Rhythm: The columns and characters / real-excites-effective: Between real and effective / Details elem-high school: There are no elem Secunia / /
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> Rel author with other works: The Death of Marat (1793), The Rape of the Sabine Women (1637) / Rel with other period pieces like:
Eros and Psyche, and the family of Charles IV (style)
. Ingres and Gros The authors relate this work / Depth Style: Neoclassicism / Innov: Perfection by David patriotic and heroic themes Ferfila romance / Influencing: The treatment of light Caravaggio / / IIC–
> Genre: Historical / Sign inconograf: Titus Livius appropriate book and a play by Corneille. S in BC Rome and Alba Longa were contested domain of central Italy. To declare which of the two cities had decided that winning would fight among themselves three brothers on each side; the Horatii Curiacis to Rome and Alba Longa. The only thing that survived was one of Horace, which saw the tears of his sister Camilla caused by the death of her fiancé, Curiacis one of the killed, as he regretted the death of an enemy of Rome / Sign iconology: Choose a theme that the French had to sacrifice for the homeland, just as Horace. Chose precisely the oath and not the battle. David, rather than address a historical fact or legend, I wanted to imbue the spirit of the time the sense of duty to the fatherland / / FIF–
> Purpose: propaganda (encouraged to meet the debts towards the homeland and not to be away by feelings) / Rel work with time: It may relate to the Rev. And French interest in the classical world / provide: Romanticism to influence the choice of heroes and patriotic themes
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> Name: EROS and Psyche / Author:
Antonio Canova / Clients: Lord Cawdor / Date: 1787-93 / Rel. A Conj: Canova made another Eros and Psyche, but standing / Style:
Italian Neoclassicism / orig Ubi: decor of the living Lord Cowdor / Ubi act: the Louvre in Paris / / D–
> Mat & Blogs: One block. Made of marble, volcanic stone and lime slurry and acid / Dimensions: 1,55 m x 1,68 m (natural) / tones: Mono / Short descr: Girl of extraordinary beauty that is rendered numb and wakes up to the Eros kisses / Technique: Size / Position: Reclining girl and boy lying half / Fig No.-Fig: Fig / /AF -> Volume: Open / Anatomy: naked bodies of extraordinary formal perfection / Mov: Unstable real and balanced / FDS: Sim, order, no vertical or horizontal, as most have either forming a diagonal cross that the figures are intertwined and that the wings of Eros and two lower limbs of all the forms / Expression: Figure expressionless, but we see expression in the hands and arms / gathering point: On a pedestal / Proportions: supplied Bodies / Weather: Between medium and short (although it leans more to short) / Light: Interna (curls, wrinkles the tunic shape of arms and wings) / Dresses: This is not a sensual one / Spectator: frontal view, but we turn it to see the pitcher /
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> Rel works with other author’s portrait of Pauline Bonaparte, the Theseus and the Minotaur / Rel period style with other works: La Marseillaise (Rude of) the same Greatest Hits Oath of the Horatii and the same style / style Depth ( Italian Neoclassicism) / Innov: Canova away from the Academy and made the figures very polished / Influencing: Influenced by Bernini for the Baroque and Classical by Phidias / / IIC–
> Item: mythological / Sign inconograf: Explains the story Psyche was known for its great beauty. Eros, fell in love with her and came up with a plan to conquer it: build a palace and gave it to him. The couple discovered that he made this gift, terrified by the divine nature of her suitor threw him a candle wax on her face. Eros and Psyche fled attempted suicide. The goddess Venus was to punish the couple with three commands: one was to pick up a jar containing the ideal of beauty. Psyche opened the jar and gave it to fall into a deep sleep until they woke up and kissed the Eros / Sign iconology: Eros and Psyche that symbolize both love and carnal passion, revealing the interest the exceptional figure by Canova and the human feelings. This theme serves to give a universal message of love / / FIF–
> Purpose: Aesthetics / Rel work with time: Interest in the classical world and the hero. Eroticism without nudity / provide: –