Title: Panorama of the Enlightenment /
Authors: Outram, Dorinda
Publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum,
Year: 2006
Subjects: Enlightenment.; Europe Intellectual life
Abstract: A collection of over 400 illustrations that describe the social, political, and cultural atmosphere of the Enlightenment between the late seventeenth century and the French Revolution.
Contents: Introduction : Archetypes of the enlightenment -- 1: What was the enlightenment? -- The language of light -- The encylcopédie, engine of the enlightenment -- 2: The sociable enlightenment -- Getting together: coffee houses and conversation -- Reading: the making of the enlightenment -- 3: Marriage, children and gender: the enlightenment family -- Enlightenment animals -- The comfortable home -- 4: The global enlightenment -- The four continents -- Mythical China: Chinoiserie, Mandarins and markets -- 5: Exploring the self -- Masks and masked balls: disguising the self -- The island of love -- 6: Authority and architecture -- The Salines de Chaux -- Sans souci: Frederick II of Prussia, palaces and a Chinese pavilion -- 7: Science and medicine -- Isaac Newton: exploring the cosmos and capturing light -- The art of anatomy -- 8: Epilogue: the legacy of the enlightenment -- The vision of Matthias Koeppel.