Nicolas Poussin: Funeral of Phocion

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Nicolas Poussin Funeral of Phocion
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera
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Jacques-Louis David The Oath of the Horatii
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Théodore GéricaultThe Raft of Medusa
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Eugène DelacroixLiberty Leading the People
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Nicolas Poussin Funeral of Phocion
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Versailles
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Jean-Antoine Watteau Pilgrimage to Cythera
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Versailles
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Classical Theater (1600s)

• Pierre de Corneille The Cid (1637)
• Jean Racine Phaedra (1677)
• Molière Tartuffe (1664)
• The three unities time, place action
• Verisimilitude actions must be believable
• Respect moral codes
• Tragedy - death
• Comedy marriage
• noble language

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Romantic Theater

• Victor Hugo
• 3 unities not respected
• genre was mixed, not pure tragedy but had comic
  moments melodrama
• no decorum violence on stage
• language put the red bonnet on the old
  dictionary (Hugo)
• The Battle of Hernani 1830

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Gardens of Versailles
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Buttes Chaumont