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Rococo painting also illustrates, in its first version, the social schism that would lead to the French Revolution, and represents the last symbolic bastion of resistance of an elite distant from the problems and interests of the common people, and that was increasingly threatened by the rise of the middle class, which was educated and began to ...
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Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/ r ə ˈ k oʊ k oʊ / rə-KOH-koh, US also / ˌ r oʊ k ə ˈ k oʊ / ROH-kə-KOH; French: or ⓘ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and ...
Image credits: Fine Art / Getty Images #4 Claude Monet (November 14, 1840 — December 5, 1926) Claude Monet was a French painter who, according to Laura Auricchio of the Department of Art and ...
The Mont-Saint-Michel Island, depicted in the famous painting of the same name by James Webb in 1857, is a famous tourist destination. Its history dates back to the 8th century. Bishop Aubert ...
The Adoration of the Name of God: 1772 Basílica de Nuestra Señora del Pilar, Zaragoza 700 x 1500 The Adoration of the Name of God (sketch) 1772 Museo Camón Aznar, Zaragoza 75 x 152 Saint Barbara (in Spanish) 1772 Museo del Prado, Madrid 97.2 x 78.5 The dream of St. Joseph: 1772 Zaragoza Museum: 129 x 93 The burial of Christ [a] 1772
St. Petersburg, Russia. During the 18th century, the Rococo movement developed as a way of pushing back against the strict, symmetrical Baroque style that was dominant at the time.