Age of Enlightenment

The Enlightenment

The movement of Philosophes

• Voltaire
• Diderot
• Montesquieu
• Adam Smith
• David Hume
• Benjamin Franklin

Painting and Architecture

• Francois Boucher
• Jean-Honore Fragonard
• Elisabeth-Louise Vigee-Lebrun
• Jean-Antoine Watteau
• William Hogarth
• Jacques-Louis David
• Rococo
• Neoclassicalism
• Robert Adam Neoclassical Archetecture

Religion

Deism

• Benjamin Franklin
• Methodism  John Wesley 1703-1791

Suggestions for Further Reading

• Diderot, D The Encyclopedia
• Fielding, H The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling
• Pope, A The History of Man
• Richardson, S Pamela

Suggestions for Listening

• Haydn, Franz Joseph (1732-1809)
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus (1756-1791)
• Rameau, Jean-Phillipe (1683-1764)
• Couperin, Francois (1668-1733)