Publication at Faculty of Education |
2021
Abstract
The study focuses on the reform of the opera seria associated with the early classicist composer Christoph Willibald Gluck and the corresponding changes in the concept of historical painting in ambivalent variants of traditional ancient mythology and contemporary historical events in the developmental changes of Jacques Louis David's painting. Emphasis is placed on the socio-historical basis for the return to the ideals of antiquity, but especially on the process of reform of opera seria and historical paintings.