Rococo to Realism: European Painting 1750-1848

Rococo to Realism

This course considers the visual arts in France, England, Spain, and Germany c. 1750 to 1848 within the context of political, racial, industrial, social, economic, and artistic revolutions. Exploring the power of the visual to engage contemporary events (overtly and indirectly), we will examine the ways in which shifting constructions of race, gender, empire, colonialism, class, slavery, politics, and national identity were construed by such artists as Boucher, Fragonard, David, Vigée-Lebrun, Benoist, Delacroix, Géricault, Goya, Turner, Constable, Ingres, Daumier, Bonheur, and Courbet.