The Enlightenment and Classicism: 1660-1770

Writers:
Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels, 1726
Alexander Pope, Essay on Man, 1734
Voltaire, Candide, 1759

Music:
Handel, Water Music, composed 1717
Bach, Brandenburg Concertos, 1721
Vivaldi, Four Seasons, composed 1725
Mozart, Symphony No. 40, 41, 1788


The Revolutionary Period and Neo-Classicism: 1775-1815.

The American and French revolutions might be expected to have generated inflammatory art, but the reverse was the case. It was republican Rome (Classical Rome) that the revolutionary period attempted to revive.

Eighteenth-Century Painters:
Watteau, Boucher, Gainsborough, David, Canova