It's the dawn of new ideas in art and music, but we're not talking about the present. Nope. We're gonna have to rewind a couple hundred years to illuminate a social and philosophical movement that kindled drastic change in the arts. You won't stay in the dark for long as we dig into this episode's topic - The Enlightenment!

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Art:

Jacques-Louis David (1748-1825) - The Oath of the Horatii (1784)

Benjamin West (1738-1820) - The Death of General Wolfe (1770)

Angelica Kauffman (1741-1807) - Cornelia, Mother of the Gracchi, Pointing to Her Children as Her Treasures (1780-1790) 

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Music:

George Frederich Handel (1685-1759) - Messiah (1741), Part II: Air. "Why Do the Nations So Furiously Rage Together"

Franz Joseph Haydn (1731-1809) - String Quartet in G Major (1799), Hob.III:81, II. Adagio

Franz Joseph Haydn - Symphony No. 101 in D Major (1794), Hob.I:101, IV. Finale. Vivace

Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach (1714-1788) - Symphony in E Minor (1756), Wq. 178, I. Allegro Assai

Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) - Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Minor (1800), Op. 37, III. Rondo

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) - Symphony No. 40 in G Minor (1788), K.550, IV. Finale. Allegro Assai