The collection features artworks that trace the transformation of the thirteen colonies into a nation, including portraits by John Singleton Copley, Charles Willson Peale, and Gilbert Stuart; landscapes by Thomas Cole; and sculptures by Horatio Greenough.

Sophisticated Europeans from the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries deemed “history painting” to be the supreme achievement in the visual arts. In addition to imaginatively re-creating actual events from the past, history paintings also illustrated heroic or moralizing episodes from religion, mythology, and literature.

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This chapter covers about 250 years (c. 1700–1865) of art made during a period of dramatic shifts and changes that reflect the cultural fluidity in the American colonies (and later, the United States).

During the reign of Louis XV (1723-1774), the arts were marked by an intricate grace. Later named rococo, after rocaille (shells and pebbles encrusted on garden grottoes), this style used iridescent pastel tints and natural motifs such as flowers, vines, and seashells.

During the 1700s to early 1800s, art was an important form of expression. It show cased whether a person had money and notoriety or if they were part of the lower class. People's egos were very muc...

Oct 1, 2004 · The northern colonial elite also looked to portraiture as an art form embodying the ambitious ideals and tastes of a wealthy society, in large measure caused by the arrival of Scottish émigré John Smibert, in Newport, Rhode Island, in 1728.

Events from the year 1700 in art. Luca Giordano returns to Naples a wealthy man after the death of his patron, Charles II of Spain. Pierre Le Gros the Younger is elected to the Accademia di San Luca. ^ "A Curious Herbal". The British Library. Retrieved 8 January 2020. ^ …

Studying their art contributes to our understanding of the social and political structures that underpin cultural production. Punctuated with examples of American, British, Italian, Irish and German works, the holdings offer a broad survey of styles and subjects.

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