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The purpose of this assignment is to connect historical events or ideals from the Enlightenment and Romantic eras to each era’s art, music, architecture, philosophy and / or literature.
Part I Enlightenment Era: Slides 1-4
Select an Enlightenment era historical event or ideal & connect it with three Enlightenment examples
- Slide 1: Select an historical event or ideal of the Enlightenment era that interests you. Under Slide 1 explain why the event or ideal is central to the Enlightenment era.
- Find three Enlightenment era examples from the humanities: art, architecture, philosophy, music, or literature that relate to, respond to and / or reflect aspects of the historical event or ideal you chose.
- Slides 2, 3, 4: provide a visual of each of your three Enlightenment era examples along with the title, creator, and date of the work. Under each slide write 100 words that explain the connection between the Enlightenment era event or ideal you chose and and the Enlightenment era example. Explain how each example relates to, responds to and / or reflect aspects of the historical event or ideal you chose.
Part 2: Romantic Era Slides 5-8
Select a Romantic era historical event or ideal & three Romantic era examples
- Slide 5: Describe an historical event or ideal of the Romantic era that interests you. Under Slide 1 explain why the event or ideal is central to the Romantic era.
- Find three Romantic era examples from the humanities: art, architecture, philosophy, music, or literature that relate to, respond to and / or reflect aspects of the historical event or ideal you chose.
- Slides 6, 7, 8 provide a visual of each of the three Romantic era examples that relate to your Romantic historical event or ideal along with the title, creator, and date of the work. Under each slide write 100 words that explain the connection between your Romantic historical event or ideal and each of your three Romantic era humanities examples. Explain how each example relates to, responds to and / or reflect aspects of the historical event or ideal you chose.
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1790
Wordsworth, “Lines Composed a
Few Miles above Tintern Abbey”
(1798)
J. M. W. Turner, Interior of Tintern Abbey
(1794)
1800 Jefferson inaugurated U. S.
President
(1801)
Fulton: steamboat
(1803)
Napoleon is crowned emperor
(ca. 1804)
England builds first steam
railway locomotive
(1804)
Napoleon, ry Dia
(1800–1817)
Goethe, Faust
(1808)
Shen Fu, Six Chapters from a
Life Floating
(1809)
Jacques‐Louis David, Napoleon Crossing the
aint Bernard Pass Great S
(1800)
Beethoven, Symphony No. 3 in E‐flat Major
(1803–1804)
1810 Napoleon invades Russia
(1812)
U. S.–British War of 1812
(1812)
Napoleon is exiled to Elba
(1814)
First use of gaslight in London
(1814)
Battle of Waterloo
(1815)
Stethoscope invented
(1815)
Byron, “Prometheus”
(1816)
Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
(1818)
Keats, “Ode on a Grecian Urn”
(1818)
Shelley, “Ode to the West Wind”
(1819)
Thomas Phillips, Lord Byron Sixth Baron in
n Costume Albania
(1813)
Francisco Goya, The Third of May, 1808
(1814)
Shubert, Erlkonig
(1815)
William Blake, The Tyger
(1815–1826)
Theodore Gericault, The Raft of the “Medusa”
(1818)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
Electromagnetism discovered
(1819)
Caspar David Friedrich, Two Men Looking at
the Moon
(1819–1820)
1820 Greece achieves independence
from Turkey
(1829)
Pushkin, “Napoleon”
(1821)
John Constable, The Haywain
(1821)
1830 French conquest of Algeria
(1830)
Opium Wars in China
(1839–1850)
Goethe completes Faust
(1832)
Eugene Delacroix, Liberty Leading the People
(1830)
Eugene Delacroix, Portrait of George Sand
(1830)
Berlioz, Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
(1830)
Chopin, Etude in G‐flat Major, Op. 10, No. 5
(1833)
Francois Rude, La Marseillaise
(1833–1836)
Edward Hicks, The Peaceable Kingdom
(ca. 1834)
Thomas Cole, The Oxbow
(1836)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1840 First Opium war: Britain vs.
China
(1840–1842)
Morse: telegraph
(1844)
Antigovernment revolutions in
France and Central Europe
(1848)
Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop
(1841)
Marx and Engel, Communist
Manifesto (1848)
J. M. W. Turner, The Slave Ship
(1840)
Charles Barry and A. W. N. Pugin, Houses of
Parliament
(1840–1860)
Wagner, Ring
(1848–1874)
Gustave Courbet, The StoneBreakers
(1849)
Gustave Courbet, Burial at Ornans
(1849–1850)
1850 Great Exhibition of London
(1851)
Beginning of Meiji rule in Japan
(1853)
Japan opens ports to the West
(1854)
The Nar
(1850)
rative of Sojourner Truth
Thoreau, Walden
(1854)
Douglass, My Bondage and My
m Freedo
(1855)
Whitman, “Song of Myself”
(1855)
Emerson, “Brahma”
(1856)
Flaubert, Madame Bovary
(1857)
Sarah Anne Whittington Lankford, Baltimore
Albion Quilt
(ca. 1850)
James Renwick and William Bodrigue, Saint
Patrick’s Cathedral
(1853–1858)
Jean‐Francois Millet, Gleaners
(ca. 1857)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
Darwin, Origin of Species
(1859)
1860 Unification of Italy
(1860)
United States Civil War
(1861–1865)
Lincoln’s Emancipation
Proclamation
(1863)
Completion of the U. S.
transcontinental railroad
(1869)
Dostoevsky, Crime and
ent Punishm
(1866)
Mill, e Subjection of Women Th
(1869)
Jean‐Louis Charles Garnier, the Opera (Paris)
(1860–1875)
Honore Daumier, The ThirdClass Carriage
(ca. 1862)
Honore Daumier, Nadar Raising Photography
ieghts of Art to the H
(1862)
Edouard Manet, Dejeuner sur l’herbe
(1863)
Edouard Manet, Olympia
(1863)
Julia Margaret Cameron, Whisper of the Muse
(ca. 1865)
Matthew B. Brady, Dead Confederate Soldier
n, Petersburg, Virginia with Gu
(1865)
Thomas Annan, High Street Close No. 193
(1868–1877, print ca. 1877)
Tchaikovsky, Romeo and Juliet
(1869)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1870 Franco‐Prussian War
(1879–1871)
Unification of Germany
(1871)
Bell: telephone
(1875)
Edison: incandescent light bulb
(1879)
Maxwell, Electricity and
ism Magnet
(1873)
Mallarme, “The Afternoon of a
Faun”
(1876)
Ibsen, Doll’s House A
(1879)
Edgar Degas, The False Start
(ca. 1870)
Verdi, ida A
(1871)
Frederic‐Auguste Bartholdi, Statue of Libery
(1871–1884)
Claude Monet, Impression: Sunrise
(1873)
Edgar Degas, Two Dancers on a Stage
(ca. 1874)
Adolph Friedrich Erdmann von Menzel, Iron
Mill
(1875)
Bizet, armen C
(1875)
Auguste Rodin, The Age of Bronze
(1876)
Pierre‐Auguste Renoir, Le Moulin de la Galette
(1876)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1880 Motion picture camera
(1889)
Paris World Exhibition
(1889)
Twain, The Adventures of
erry Finn Huckleb
(1884)
Zola, rminal Ge
(1885)
Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
(1888)
Edgar Degas, le Dancer Aged Fourteen Litt
(ca. 1880–1881)
Auguste Rodin, The Gates of Hell
(1880–1917)
Eadweard Muybridge, Photo Sequence of
Racehorse
(1884–1885)
Georges Seurat, Sunday Afternoon on the
ande Jatte Island of La Gr
(1884–1886)
Auguste Rodin, The Kiss
(1886–1898)
Thomas Eakins, The Agnew Clinic
(1889)
Gustave Eiffel, Eiffel Tower
(1889)
Vincent van Gogh, SelfPortrait
(1889)
Vincent van Gogh, The Starry Night
(1889)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1890 Sino‐Japanese War
(1894–1895)
Steel‐framed skyscraper
(Sullivan: Guaranty Building)
(1895)
Chopin, “The Story of an Hour”
(1894)
Kipling, “The White Man’s
Burden”
(1899)
Mary Cassatt, The Bath
(1891–1892)
Henry Ossawa Tanner, The Banjo Lesson
(ca. 1893)
Henri de Toulouse‐Lautrec, At the Moulin
Rouge
(1893–1895)
Debussy, Prelude a “L’apresmidi d’un faune”
(1894)
Paul Gauguin, The Day of the God
(1894)
Paul Cezanne, The Basket of Apples
(ca. 1895)
Camille Pissarro, Le Boulevard Montmartre:
eather, Afternoon Rainy W
(1897)
Kathe Kollwitz, March of the Weavers
(1897)
Claude Monet, WaterLily Pond, Symphony in
Green
(1899)
Henri de Toulouse‐Lautrec, Jane Avril
(1899)
Winslow Homer, The Gulf Stream
(1899)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1900 Paul Cezanne, Mont SainteVictoire
(1902–1904)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1500 Suleiman
rules Ottoman Empire
(1520–1566)
Mogul Dynasty
(1526–1666)
Elizabeth I of England
(1533–1603)
Akbar rules Mogul Empire
(1556–1605)
James I of England
(1566–1625)
Shah Abbas rules Safavid
Empire
(1588–1629)
Copernicus publishes De
onibus orbium revoluti
(1543)
Loyola, Spiritual Exercises
(1548)
Michelangelo Buonarroti, The Last Judgment
(1536–1540)
El Greco, ny in the Garden The Ago
(ca. 1585–1586)
1600 Charles I of England
(1600–1649)
Tokugawa Shogunate in Japan
(1600–1868)
Jahangir rules Mogul Empire
(1607–1627)
Thirty Years’ War
(1618–1648)
Kepler formulates three laws of
planetary motion
(1619)
Donne, Holy Sonnets
(1610)
Saint Teresa’s Visions
(1611)
Bacon, Novum Organum
(1620)
Donne, Meditation 17
(1623)
Caravaggio, The Supper at Emmaus
(ca. 1600)
Caravaggio, The Crucifixion of Saint Peter
(1601)
Monteverdi, Orfeo
(1607)
Artemisia Gentileschi, Judith Slaying
Holofemes
(ca. 1614–1620)
Gabrieli, Motet, “In Ecclesiis”
(1615)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
Gianlorenzo Bernini, David
(1623)
Taj Mahal
(1623–1643)
1625 Charles I becomes king of
England
(1625)
Shah Jahan rules Mogul Empire
(1627–1666)
Trial of Galileo
(1633)
Japan expels all Europeans
(1637)
Louis XIV of France
(1638–1715)
English Civil War
(1642–1648)
Louis XIV rules France
(1643–1715)
Qing (Manchu Dynasty)
(1644–1912)
Charles I executed
(1649)
Bacon, Of Studies
(1625)
Descartes, Discourse on Method
(1637)
First weekly newspaper
(London)
(1648)
Judith Leyster, SelfPortrait
(ca. 1630)
First opera house in Venice
(1637)
Anthony van Dyck, Charles I on Horseback
(ca. 1638)
Gianlorenzo Bernini, The Ecstasy of Saint
Teresa
(1645–1652)
Rembrandt van Rijn, Christ Preaching
(ca. 1648–1650)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
English Commonwealth
(1649–1660)
1650 Restoration of monarchy
(1660)
Kangxi (Qing dynasty) rules
China
(1661–1722)
Royal Society of London
founded
(1662)
Fire of London
(1666)
Hobbes, Leviathan
(1651)
Crashaw, The Flaming Heart
(1652)
La Rochefoucauld, Maxims
(1664)
Milton, Paradise Lost
(1667)
Moliere, Le Bourgeois
mme Gentilho
(1670)
Diego Velazquez, Las Meninas (The Maids of
Honor)
(1656)
Rembrandt van Rijn, The Return of the
Prodigal Son
(ca. 1662–1668)
Jan Vermeer, Woman Holding a Balance
(ca. 1664)
Maria van Oosterwyck, Vanitas Still Life
(1668)
1675 James II becomes king
(1685)
Glorious Revolution
(1688)
English Bill of Rights; Toleration
Act
(1689)
Locke, Essay Concerning Human
anding Underst
(1690)
Locke, f Civil Government O
(1690)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
1700 yacinthe Rigaud, H Portrait of Louis XIV
(1701)
Bach, Cantata No. 80, “Eine feste Burg iste
unser Gott”
(1724)
1725 Flying shuttle
(1733)
Swift, Modest Proposal A
(1729)
Pope, Man Essay on
(1733–1734)
Handel, Messiah
(1742)
1750 Spinning jenny
(1764)
Steam engine
(1765)
Diderot, lopedie Encyc
(1751–1772)
Rousseau, Discourse on the
f Inequality among Men Origin o
(1755)
Voltaire, Candide, or Optimism
(1759)
William Hogarth, Gin Lane
(1751)
Jean‐Honore Fragonard, The Swing
(1768–1769)
1775 Power loom
(1785)
Meeting of the Estates General
(1789)
Fall of Bastilee
(1789)
Jefferson, Declaration of
Independence
(1776)
Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature
and Causes of the Wealth of
Nations
(1776)
Jacques‐Louis David, The Oath of the Horatii
(1784)
Mozart, Serenade No. 13 in G Major
(1787)
Haydn, Symphony No. 94 in G Major
(1791)
History & World Events Literature & Philosophy Architecture, & Visual & Performing Arts
Declaration of the Rights of Man
and Citizen
(1789)
France declared a republic
(1792)
Louis XVI executed
(1793)
Reign of Terror
(1793–1794)
Napoleon rules the Directory
(1795–1799)
Equiano, Travels
(1789)
Wollstonecraft, A Vindication of
ts of Woman the Righ
(1792)
Condorcet, Sketch for a
Historical Picture of the Progress
uman Mind of the H
(1793)
Briffault de la Charprais and Mme. Esclapart,
e Bastille, July 14, 1789 The Siege of th
(1791–1796)
Jacques‐Louis David, The Death of Marat
(1793)
1800 Li Ruzhen, Flowers in the Mirror
(1828)
Arc de Triomphe
(1806–1836)
Jefferson, The Rotunda, University of Virginia
(1822–1826)
Jean‐Auguste‐Dominique Ingres, La Grande
ue Odalisq
(1814)
Jean‐Auguste‐Dominique Ingres, The
osis of Homer Apothe
(1827)