The History of Neoclassical Architecture. Neoclassical architecture originated during the 18th-century Enlightenment, a ...

But what is Rococo? Part of the answer stems back to ... What lessons can we learn from this era of late Baroque history? Quite a few as it turns out. And some surprising ones—these artists ...

The paintings represent a fusion of folk art with the styles favoured by the landed gentry of the time, including Baroque and Rococo. Decorated by painters, including known and unknown itinerant ...

Rococo didn’t appear out of nowhere. It rose in the wake of Baroque absolutism—that is, the era when Louis XIV ruled France with total, unquestioned power. Everything from politics to palace ...

Focusing on ornamental object design, which he often rendered in shades of black and gold, he was jointly inspired by Austrian folk art and Rococo, earning his style the moniker “Spiky Baroque.” His ...