choose from the Missouri University Museum is Young Woman with a Sprig of Jasmine. The Rococo style painting was done by Pietro Rotari. Rotari was born into a Veronese family in 1707. In Venice, he received training from Antonio Balestra then went back to Verona to open a painting school. Pietro Rotari spent his last couple years working for the Russian aristocracy until he died in 1762. Rotari worked in the Rococo era which was characterized by pastel colors and a cheerful mood. Young Woman…
CA. Clodion was a major influence in the Rococo style and his artwork is quite typical of the art from its period. Clodion was one of the first artists to sculpt mainly in terracotta because it gave him the opportunity to create very fine details in his sculptures. His sculptures mainly focused on nymphs, satyrs, bacchantes, and other mythical figures sculpted in a sensual manner. He was a sculptor during a period that was transitioning from the Rococo style into the Neo-Classical Romantic…
The eighteenth century, Rococo era, was a light-hearted time being pre-revolutionary. This was a period the postmodern world would attempt to emulate. Rococo was a time of, intellectual, social, and political achievements. Not until the eighteenth century did many of the plans and ideas of the last one-hundred years were finally undertaken. Mathematics and the sciences were being accepted and embraced. They were changing the way that society thought and acted. Democracy began to seed in the…
to change because the damage of the economy was hard to deal with. Louis XIV’s death created a period of chaos, which leads to a dramatic shift in the arts, freeing the arts from the masculinity of Baroque art to the birth of the femininity of the Rococo. Louis XIV was born into royalty. Born September 5, 1638 to King XIII of France and Habsburg…
was the Great Grandson to Louis XIII and therefore a relative of Louis XIV and Louis XV (Raucous Royals). The family of this monarchy became a notorious influence of the art world, specifically Louis XV and the Rococo movement (Decorator and Furnisher, 175). While the development of the Rococo was beginning, Louis XV’s mistress Madame de Pompadour discovered the artist Francois Boucher (Adams, Forward). Boucher was commissioned by Madame de Pompadour various times especially for her portraits,…
However, Germany saw a re-discovery of an ancient art form perfected by the Chinese. The art of porcelain making, beautifully decorated table ware, vases and eventually figurines were manufactured and Franz Anton Bustelli became the quintessential Rococo artist creating his fabulous little sculptures at…
It is at the start of the 15th century that scientific discovery begins to take off. This growing interest in scientific knowledge is then showcased through art for the next three centuries, covering the renaissance, baroque and rococo stylistic periods. Although it is not a continually growing interest, the interest is always present and shifting in its use. This interest starts in early renaissance with Donatello’s sculpture of David. Donatello builds upon the realism previously made popular…
1753/1756, and finally François Boucher’s The Bath of Venus, 1751. These painting are not only connected by the same medium, They also contain similar themes of Roman mythology (fantasy), and they all happen to be created during the same period which was Rococo. In addition to fantasy the pieces I chose had erotic undertones, and were made to be decorative pieces for their buyers. The first painting…
French artists were well known portraitists from the Rococo period. The Stolen Kiss was acquired by the museum in 1895 and is painted with oil on canvass which created a “smooth, enamel-like surface of the painting, the blended brushstrokes [were] used to convey the details so precisely.” (The State Hermitage Museum, 2017) The painting is 45x55 cm, is found in a beautiful golden frame, and is painted in the colors that are characteristic of the Rococo period and of Fragonard’s pastoral…
Herdswoman Familiarity: Timelessness in Art. Amidst the many art styles in Western history, the rococo style stands out as one of the most defining styles. As an evolution from the baroque period, rococo paintings have cemented themselves with asymmetry and pastel colors, evoking playful themes as opposed to political themes of the past. Upon visiting the Dallas Museum of Art, I encountered the rococo painting, Landscape with Distant Buildings and a Herdswoman, while perusing the museum’s…