Select an Enlightenment era historical event or ideal & connect it with three Enlightenment examples
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
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Order Paper Now- 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)