Rococo
Style following the end of Louis XIV of France’s reign that emphasized pastel color, elegant artifice, and the pleasures of aristocratic life.
Rococo
Style following the end of Louis XIV of France’s reign that emphasized pastel color, elegant artifice, and the pleasures of aristocratic life.
Basics to get you started
Rococo art, an introduction
The Tiepolo Family
The formation of a French school: the Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture
Architecture in 18th-century Germany
Maria Sibylla Merian, an introduction
The bug that had the world seeing red
Art Appreciation: Nature—comparisons and connections
Conserving Old Master Drawings
Printmaking in Europe, c. 1400−1800
Works of Art
Artists
Antoine Watteau, Pilgrimage to Cythera, 1717, oil on canvas, 4′ 3″ x 6′ 4 1/2″ (Musée du Louvre, Paris)
