Art and Design Questions What were the most salient differences between the Royal Academies and their respective salons in Paris and London? How did the p

Art and Design Questions What were the most salient differences between the Royal Academies and their respective salons in Paris and London?

How did the popularity of the Salons begin to change art? What were some of the tensions between the ideals of high art and the new “public sphere” opened up by the Salons?

How did Benjamin West and/or Jacques Louis David change “history painting”?

What effect(s) did the French Revolution have on the artistic output of David? What does this suggest about the role of the artist in society in that context?

What is the relationship between nature and the ideal for Winckelmann, and how should an artist properly approach those two concepts?