Red and White Plum Blossoms
1715 · MOA Museum of Art, Atami
A stylized river runs down the gold between two plum trees, one young and white, the other old and red, leaning toward each other.
★ 8.8
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Showing 46 works across all media from the 1710s
The Embarkation for Cythera
1717 · Louvre, Paris
Couples linger on the shore of Venus's island at dusk, unwilling to board. Watteau gave it to the Academy, which invented a genre to fit it.
★ 8.3
Pierrot, Formerly Known as Gilles
1719 · Louvre, Paris
A clown in white satin stands alone at full length with his arms hanging useless, given the scale of a grand portrait.
★ 7.6
Robinson Crusoe
1719 · 304 pages
Twenty-eight years on an island near the Orinoco, counting days on a post and keeping his own moral ledgers, until a footprint appears in the sand. The English novel grew from this.
★ 7.0
Principles of Human Knowledge and Three Dialogues
1710 · 217 pages
Nothing exists but minds and what minds perceive, Berkeley argues, and matter is a word philosophers cannot cash. God does the perceiving that keeps your furniture there once you leave the room.
★ 6.3
Philosophical Essays
1710 · 366 pages
Reality is made of monads, mind-like simple substances with no windows, whose perceptions God synchronized in advance. His conclusion that ours is the optimal world drew Voltaire's ridicule in Candide.
★ 6.3
The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, And wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
The Rape of the Lock · 1714
Principia · 1713
True wit is Nature to advantage dressed, What oft was thought, but ne'er so well expressed.
An Essay on Criticism · 1711
Our God, Our Help in Ages Past · 1719
Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
An Essay on Criticism · 1711
Some praise at morning what they blame at night; But always think the last opinion right.
An Essay on Criticism · 1711
A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge · 1710
My Days Have Been So Wondrous Free · 1714