This presentation gives an overview of the French Revolution and Neoclassicism in both art and architecture.

1. The French Revolution
and Neoclassicism

2. The French Revolution

3. Meeting of the Estates General on May 5, 1789
18th c. Engraving

4. The Tennis Court Oath (1789)
Jacques-Louis David, 1791

5. The Taking of the Bastille (1789)
Jean-Pierre Houël, 1789

6. The Destruction of the Bastille (1789)
1789 Engraving

7. Equality (Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen, 1789)
Jean-Guillaume Moitte, 1793

9. Women’s March on Versailles (1789)
1789 Engraving

10. Execution of Louis XVI (1793)
1794 Engraving

11. Execution of Robespierre (1794)
1794 Engraving

12. Portrait of Napoleon
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1803-4

13. Coronation of Emperor Napoleon and Empress Josephine (1804)
Jacques-Louis David, 1805-7

15. Portrait of Napoleon
Jacques-Louis David, 1812

17. Napoleon on His Imperial Throne
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, 1806

18. Neoclassicism

19. Painting

20. The Oath of the Horatii
Jacques-Louis David, 1785

22. The Death of Socrates
Jacques-Louis David, 1787

24. Cornelia Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures
Angelica Kauffmann, 1785

26. Watson and the Shark
John Singleton Copley, 1778

28. Sculpture

29. George Washington
Jean-Antoine Houdon, 1788-92

32. Architecture

33. Chiswick House, London
Lord Burlington and William Kent, Begun 1725

35. Monticello, Virginia
Thomas Jefferson, 1770-1806

36. Virginia State Capitol
Thomas Jefferson, 1785-98

37. La Madeleine, Paris
Pierre-Alexandre Vignon, Begun 1806