Roccoco

Extravagance at its Max

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• Delicate
• Cursive
• Lighter
• Swelling (bombé)
• light colors
  • Pastels (pinks, light blues, silvers)
• Undulation
• Motion, movement
• Fete galante subject
• EXAMPLES: Fragonard, Watteau

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Francois de Cuvillies Amalienburg (Hunting Lodge) palace grounds of Nymphenburg, near Munich 1734-1739
Antoine Watteau Return from Cythera Louvre, Paris 1716 compare with French Baroque of Hyacinthe Rigaud's Louis XIV
Antoine Watteau L'Indifferent Louvre, Paris 1716
Jean-Honore Fragonard The Swing Wallace Collection, London 1766
Francois Boucher Cupid a Captive Wallace Collection, London 1754
Clodion (Claude Michel) Nymph and Satyr terracotta Metropolitan Museum, New York 1775

VOCAB

pavilion
French Royal Academy (founded 1648)
rococo = conflation of 'rocaille' (French for pebble or shell decorations) and barocco (Italian, Baroque)
bombé
Poussinistes
Rubenistes
fête galante
genre scene - scene of everyday life

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