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painter. His versatility in the popular style of Rococo, led to great works that were consistently classical in subject and skill. His playful style ...

first referred to as Baroque and later as Rococo. He is often credited with ... of the same painting epitomize French Rococo at its peak. The elegant ...

Theresa ochre," with delicate rococo touches designed for her ... of the interior ornamentation is in the rococo style, with red, white, and ...

in Great Britain, others, such as the Rococo and Neoclassicism were perpetuated ... styles, including Gothic, Neoclassicism, Rococo, and the Eastlake Movement ...

Morisot was the granddaughter of the Rococo painter, Jean-Honoré Fragonard. He had been one of the most prolific Rococo painters of the ancien ...

Louis David, came into its own as the Rococo period was waning and Neoclassicism ... models, particularly their statuary. The Rococo style depicted by the pastoral ...

marked a change in taste away from Rococo frivolity towards a classical ... was also a distant relative. Boucher was a Rococo painter, which was falling ...

is a prime example of the transition from the Rococo, to the more formalized Neoclassical architectural style which became vogue in the late seventeenth ...

Though Baroque was superseded in many centers by the Rococo style ... The later Baroque style gradually gave way to a more decorative Rococo ...

year to year,Peter Thornton, Baroque and Rococo Silks (London: Faber and ... *Thornton, Peter. Baroque and Rococo Silks. Faber & Faber, 1965 ...

vanitas message of their Dutch predecessors. The Rococo love of artifice led to a rise in appreciation for trompe l'oeil (French: "trick the ...

art of the seventeenth century and the Rococo art of the eighteenth century. ... many elements of Mannerist, Baroque, and Rococo stylistic approaches. For ...

folk art and the eighteenth century rococo. Antoine Watteau was probably the single artist whom they admired the most. Such Revivalist projects ...

Baroque and rococo aesthetic trends, use of the pointed-pen for writing ... "modern." Fournier's rococo-influenced designs—Fournier ...

works and drawings display graceful rococo s-scrolls, central rosettes ... lozenges in the side panels. Axminster Rococo designs often have a brown ...

is not a concerto but a series of variations on a Rococo theme. Brahms contributed to the repertoire with a Double Concerto for violin, cello, and orchestra ...

of the classical style, composing in the Rococo and Classical periods. Standing in the shadow of his famous father J.S. Bach, C.P.E. Bach is ...

patron. Some regard him as the father of the Rococo and Classical age of music—at least in Opera. Gluck's operatic reforms, eliminating all that ...

not only to the realism of the Dutch, but to the Rococo curves. One of his mentors was Francis Hayman, who was famous for his scenes from Shakespeare ...

#039; some of the more abstract elements of Rococo style, such as flame and shell textures, they also advocated the use of highly stylized, organic ...

* The Rococo Piano of Art Tatum Pearl Flapper, 1995 * I Know That You Know, Jazz Club Records, 1995 * Piano Solo Private Sessions October 1952 ...

Hill," appealed to the rococo tastes of the time, and by ... part bookcase employs gothic details with Rococo profusion, on a symmetrical ...

a cameo-like "medallion portrait." The Rococo style gave more movement to these figures. ===Post-Renaissance tombs=== The early nineteenth ...

century and peaking in waves, especially Rococo Chinoiserie, ca 1740–1770. From the Renaissance to the eighteenth century Western designers ...

composers themselves in the ornate rococo style that superseded the baroque. ... Bach—were important composers in the rococo style that followed the baroque ...

* The palace of Leopoldskron, a rococo palace and a national historic monument in Leopoldskron-Moos, a southern district of the city of Salzburg ...

to loud), as well as the symphonies written in the Rococo and Classical Period, the need for instant dynamic range in an instrument grew tremendously ...

Irish Palladian Country houses often have robust Rococo plasterwork, frequently executed by the Lafranchini brothers, an Irish speciality, which is ...

Old Town, contains the treasury and the splendid rococo Cuvilliés Theatre. Next door is the neo-classical opera, the National Theatre. ...

the Gold State Coach, are housed. This rococo gilt coach, designed by Sir William Chambers in 1760, has painted panels by G. B. Cipriani. It ...

consists of four identical palace facades with rococo interiors around an octagonal courtyard. * Christiansborg Palace, in central Copenhagen ...

* Suite bergamasque (1890) — recalls, in Verlainian fashion, Rococo decorousness with a modern cynicism and puzzlement. This suite contains ...

the most important work of Northern German rococo. Sanssouci, which translates from French as "Without Cares," was a refuge for Frederick ...

Rubens. This battle was won when, a product of the Rococo period, Antoine Watteau was accepted into the French Academy in 1717, with his Embarkation ...

It is sometimes called "Galant," "Rococo," or "pre-Classical," or at other times, "early Classical." It is ...

* Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra, Op. 33. – 1876 :Reflects his adoration of Mozart and Baroque music. * Piano suite The ...

oboes or other winds. Beginning in the early Rococo era, composers such as Haydn, J.C. Bach, Sammartini and Stamitz included parts that exploited the ...

heavily ornamented styles of the Baroque and the Rococo, and instead embraced a cleaner, uncluttered style reminiscent of Classical Greece. The newly ...

few examples of the Baroque, Renaissance, and Rococo architecture styles so often built by the ruling classes elsewhere in Europe, were constructed ...

Theresa of Austria ordered the palace restyled in Rococo; in 1996, it was added to the United Nations' World Cultural Heritage list. ...

are the great, still complete palladian and rococo country houses which can be favorably compared to anything similar in northern Europe, and the ...

Lorrain. During the eighteenth century, the Rococo style emerged as a frivolous continuation of the Baroque style. The most famous painters of the era ...

by the highly ornamented French and Italian Rococo styles in the first half of the eighteenth century. In the early nineteenth century, a forbidding ...