Terms of the Day for September 28

• The Age of the Enlightenment - (also known as the Enlightenment or Age of Reason) A cultural movement of intellectuals in 18th-century Europe that sought to mobilize the power of reason in order to reform society and advance knowledge. It promoted science and intellectual interchange and opposed superstition, intolerance, and abuses in church and state.
• Neoclassicism – (meaning “new classical”) An artistic movement of 18th-century Europe in which there was a revival of classic antiquity in art, architecture, and literature, inspired directly from the ancient Greek and Roman periods, as a rejection of Rococo era art.  Based in the philosophies of the Enlightenment, Neoclassical art promotes morality and reason and rejects oppression of church or state.
• Planarity – a term that refers to the placement of objects and figures parallel to the picture plane in a drawing or painting
• Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture – a French royal art institution founded to professionalize the artists working for the French court and give them a stamp of approval that artists of the St. Luke's guild did not have.
• Salon (Paris) – a term used for the regular organized official exhibitions of art held by the  Académie de Peinture et Sculpture in France. To show at a salon, a young artist needed to be received by the Académie by first submitting an artwork to the jury; only Académie artists could be shown in the salons.