Louis XV Furniture, French Rococo. Louis XV, 1723 - 1774 By the time of Louis XV's reign the rather overbearing and studiously ornate Baroque furniture type of Louis XIV gradually fell out of favour, particularly between 1720 and 1730, and was replaced by what is called the rococo.
This time is viewed by many as the highest point in French furniture design and has undergone numerous revivals over the subsequent centuries. Mid 18th century furniture in France is renowned for the most fine craftsmanship and attention to detail. French Rococo The major characteristics, in abstract terms, of the rococo style, sometimes called Louis XV or Louis Quinze, are lightness, assymetry, elegance, and the most exquisitely minute and careful decorative accents.
Louis XV Console Table. Influences on Rococo Middle Class Homes Madame de Pompadour Social Customs The salon, social gathering, whether in palaces or ordinary homes, developed into a common occurence. Louis XV Salon. Rococo Furniture Makers French Rococo Style Armchair, 1750. Baroque and Rococo Furniture. In the middle of XVI century, following the Counter-Reformation, is the Baroque synonymous with seduction, movement, redundancy, oddity due to sprains made to classical art.
In XVII century, the Baroque furniture, which is characterized by an excess of decoration at the expense of the purity of form, translated the tastes ostentatious of the wealthy families in different countries of Europe; Lords and bourgeois merely a furnishings more modest. France is dependent on the creations of its neighbors during first half the XVII century, especially for closets, a surprisingly rich, sort of palace a miniature with panels of ebony carved, inlaid with precious stones, ivory, tortoiseshell. Filming in twisted column, but also baluster or rosary, is widely used for chairs and tables. Andre Charles Boulle, convenient Whereas in France it comes to style rock, corresponding to the Regency and Louis XV, abroad we use the term "rococo". Cdn2.all-art.org/rococo/images/19. French-Rococo-design-for-your-house. Baroque and Rococo. Rococo (less commonly roccoco ; , ), also referred to as "Late Baroque", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting , sculpture , architecture , interior design , decoration , literature , music and theatre .
The Rococo developed in the early part of the 18th century in Paris , France as a reaction against the grandeur, symmetry and strict regulations of the Baroque , especially that of the Palace of Versailles . In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture. Rococo art and architecture in such a way was ornate and made strong usage of creamy, pastel-like colours, asymmetrical designs, curves and gold. Unlike the more politically focused Baroque, the Rococo had more playful and often witty artistic themes. Towards the end of the 18th century, Rococo started to fall out of fashion, and it was largely supplanted by the Neoclassic style.
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