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c. 1715 - 1774

Rococo Art & Architecture. c. 1715 - 1774. “Rococo Art was as decorative and nonfunctional as the effete aristocracy that embraced it.”. Light, elaborate, decorative style. Centered in France & associated with Louis XV. Pastels, non-serious subject matter.

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c. 1715 - 1774

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  1. Rococo Art & Architecture c. 1715 - 1774

  2. “Rococo Art was as decorative and nonfunctional as the effete aristocracy that embraced it.”

  3. Light, elaborate, decorative style. • Centered in France & associated with Louis XV. • Pastels, non-serious subject matter. • A backlash to the darkness of the Baroque --> less formal & grandiose. • Often portrays the lifestyle of the nobility. “Fete galante” • Eventually replaced by Neo-Classicism, the artistic style of the American & French Revolutions.

  4. Louis XV

  5. Jean-Antoine Watteau (1684-1721)

  6. “Pilgrimage to Cythera”

  7. “The Pleasures of the Ball”

  8. “The Pleasures of Life”

  9. Jean-Honoré Fragonard

  10. The Swing

  11. The See-SawFragonard

  12. From “The Progress of Love”, “The Stolen Kiss”

  13. From “The Progress of Love” “Love Crowned”

  14. François Boucher

  15. “La Toilette”

  16. “The Marquis de Pompadour”

  17. “Leda and the Swan”

  18. Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842)

  19. MadamduBarry

  20. MarieAntoinette

  21. The English Rococo Portraiturists

  22. “Blue Boy” & “Pinkie” Thomas Gainsborough

  23. “Portrait of a Lady in Blue” Thomas Gainsborough Late 1770s

  24. “Mary, Countess Howe” Thomas Gainsborough Late 1760

  25. Rococo Interiors

  26. Sans Souci, Frederick the Great’s Palace in Potsdam Germany

  27. Sans Souci, Frederick’s Music Room

  28. Rococo Room,Frick Museum

  29. Arts & SciencesBoucher

  30. Rococo Chairs

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