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1
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Rococo style

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Softer and more delicate than baroque

2
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Paris salon

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Social gathering held in a wealthy woman’s hotel

3
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Most famous Paris salon

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Madame Geoffrin

4
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Wistful mood of rococo painting captured by

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Antoine Watteau

Paintings:
Pilgrimage to the island of cythera
Fete galante

5
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New style of painting invented by Watteau

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Fete galente

6
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Introduced pastel crayon as a medium

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Rosalba Carriea

7
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More sensual and decorative side of rococo

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François Boucher

Paintings:
The toilet of Venus

8
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Lighthearted charm of rococo

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Fragonard

Paintings:
The Progress of Love (4 painting cycle)
The meeting/Storming the Citadel

9
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Portraitist and confidante of Marie Antoinette

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Vigée-Lebrun

Paintings:
Self-portrait in a straw hat

10
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First woman to dance like a man, trained at Paris Opera professional dance school

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de Carmargo

11
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Chief rival to Camargo

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Marie Sallé

12
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Made his career painting portraits of British High Society

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Gainsborough

13
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Popularized science and belief in reason

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The Enlightenment

14
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Attempt to systematically compile all human knowledge

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The Encyclopedia

Editor: Denis Diderot

15
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Enlightenments most popular writer. Wrote Emile or education and the social contract

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Scottish moral philosopher. Wrote inquiry into the wealth of nations

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Adam Smith

17
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France’s most popular play

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The Marriage of Figaro

18
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Most popular painter of mid-eighteenth century

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Jean-Baptiste Greuze

Bride of the village

19
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First great English novel

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Pamela or Virtue rewarded by Samuel Richardson

20
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Most popular sentimental novel of 18th century

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Rossueau’s Julie or the new Heloïse

21
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Combined stylized acting, song, dance, and colorful costumes in Japan

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Kabuki Theater