Topic 7: The 'Age of Reason' to 'Romanticism'

• Social and political history of 18th- and 19th-century Europe and its impact on art

• Rococo art and architecture

• 18th-century architecture in Europe and America

• The role of Academies in shaping 18th-century painting and sculpture

• Romanticism and the changing status of the artist

• Developments in landscape painting