1. Rococo
Art &
Architecture c

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-Saw Fragonard

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

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

14. ENTRY #40 For each of the following pieces, tell whether it is an example of Mannerism, Baroque, or Rococo art/architecture and WHY. C. B. A.

15. ENTRY # 40 B. El Greco - Christ Driving the Traders from the Temple
A. Ruebens - The Birth of the Dauphin at Fountainebleau
Boucher-La Toilette

16. François Boucher

17. “La Toilette”

18. “The Marquis de Pompadour”

19. “Leda and the Swan”

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

21. Madam du Barry

22. Marie Antoinette

23. The English
Rococo
Portraiturists

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

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

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

27. Rococo
Interiors

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

29. Sans Souci, Frederick’s Music Room

30. Rococo Room,Frick Museum

31. Arts & Sciences Boucher

32. The Fragonard Room, Frick Museum

33. Cuvillies, Mirror Room (1739)
(Vs. Baroque Versailles Hall of Mirrors)

34. Rococo Chairs