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20 lip 2024 · Rococo art, by nature, was elaborate, playful, filled with delicate colours, and often witty. Rococo is an artistic style which originated in the 18th century in France. Often referred to merely as Late Baroque, the Rococo developed from the Baroque artistic movement.
Rococo art, by nature, was elaborate, playful, filled with delicate colours, and often witty. Rococo is an artistic style which originated in the 18th century in France. Often referred to merely as Late Baroque, the Rococo developed from the Baroque artistic movement.
9 sty 2019 · Rococo describes a type of art and architecture that began in France in the mid-1700s. It is characterized by delicate but substantial ornamentation. Often classified simply as "Late Baroque ," Rococo decorative arts flourished for a short period before Neoclassicism swept the Western world.
21 lis 2024 · Rococo, style in interior design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century. It is characterized by lightness, elegance, and an exuberant use of curving natural forms in ornamentation.
31 gru 2014 · Translated from French by Jonathan Griffin, a comprehensive textbook on the Baroque and Rococo movements across Europe
In the early years of the 1700s, at the end of the reign of Louis XIV, there was a shift away from the classicism and “Grand Manner” (based on the art of Nicolas Poussin) that had governed the art of the preceding 50 years in France, toward a new style that we call Rococo.
This new style has been known since the last century as "rococo," from the French word, rocaille, for rock and shell garden ornamentation. First emerging in the decorative arts, the rococo emphasized pastel colors, sinuous curves, and patterns based on flowers, vines, and shells.
