... as the seventeenth-century artistic and cultural style, characterized by an emphasis on grandeur, opulence, expansiveness, and complexity. The term originated from critics to describe architecture and paintings that failed to meet their standards of beauty. Among the general characteristics of baroque art is a sense of movement, energy, and tension. Throughout the Renaissance and into the baroque period, painters sought a grander sense of ... statues and to top it all off (no pun intended), it has a spectacular dome based on the dome of St. Paul's cathedral. And finally there is Rococo....

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... on negative space, the solid splat and the flanking stiles were carefully designed so as to produce a gracefully curved void between them. Case furniture in the Late Baroque style became more architectural, with proportions and ornament derived from Renaissance precedents. New translations of Andrea Palladio's Four Books of Architecture (1570) provided craftsmen with formulas for determining proper proportions ... curvilinear legs that terminated in pointed slipper feet (1994.449). One notable exception to the subdued ornamentation of Queen Anne–style furniture is japanning, a techni...

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... moralizing in character. When revolutionary movements established republics in France and America, the new governments adopted neoclassicism as their official art style. Neoclassical art is a form of art based on fixed, ideal values. The next painting I observed was one from the Baroque time period. Venus and Adonis by Rubens interested me. Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish painter, was considered the most important of ... the 17th century. His style came to define the animated, robustly sensuous aspects of Baroque painting. The works of Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as ancient Greco-Rom...

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... moralizing in character. When revolutionary movements established republics in France and America, the new governments adopted neoclassicism as their official art style. Neoclassical art is a form of art based on fixed, ideal values. The next painting I observed was one from the Baroque time period. Venus and Adonis by Rubens interested me. Peter Paul Rubens, a Flemish painter, was considered the most important of ... the 17th century. His style came to define the animated, robustly sensuous aspects of Baroque painting. The works of Michelangelo and Raphael, as well as ancient Greco-Rom...

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... and 1720 in France. During this period Louis XV was the king of France. The Rococo is thought to be the final stage of the Baroque period. It lasted the span of Louis XV life 1715-1774. The term rococo comes from the French word rocialle meaning rock work. The rock ... the paintings of this era, are light hearted, easy going when it comes to subject matter. The overall style of the 1700s can be summed up by its "lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation" (Rococo Style, Encarta). In one word the rococo phase is all about fantasy. It is a diversion from real life and ... from the p...

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