The contribution of the Salon and the Masonic Lodge to the circulation of enlightened ideas in eighteenth-century Europe

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Presentation

Pages :

7 pages

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.doc

Published date :

01/15/2009

Category :

History & geography

Sub category :

Modern history

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Summary :

Introduction.
The extent to which the Masonic Lodge and the Salon contributed to the circulation of enlightened ideas across Europe.
1. The Salon and the Lodge's promotion significantly the Enlightenment across Europe.
2. The Masonic Lodge and the Salon as an exhibition of paintings.
3. Places that gave a physical expression to enlightened ideas.
4. A particular characteristic of the Masonic Lodge.
The Masonic constitutionalism.
1. The new enlightened society.
2. The appearance of very popular artists.
3. The ideal society called for by the freemasons.
The Salon.
1. An enlightened education for most citizens.
2. The lodge: Considered as a school.
3. The education provided by the Salon.
4. The final aim of the critics.
5. Originally created by the Royal Academy of Painting.
6. The dependence of te exhibitions on the Directeur's goodwill.
The Masonic Lodge.
1. Equality between 'brothers' in an ideal society.
2. Socially exclusive.
3. Hostility towards the world of 'profanes'.
Conclusion.
Bibliography.

Abstract

The masonic lodge embodied the new type of private societies with public effects that developed remarkably over the eighteenth century in europe. On the contrary, the salon, as an official exhibition of paintings, was the representation of the influence of the monarchy on artistic matters during the same period of time. Its main characteristic being to be totally opened to the population could make it join the masonic lodge as an alternative social space within a monarchy still claiming its complete monopoly over the public sphere. The effect of such a development of social networks was the diffusion of different ideas about society, namely to create the "Enlightenment". Jürgen Habermas talked about the birth of a new "public sphere" in the eighteenth century, for these networks encouraged the formation of a public opinion different from the monarch's.