Lecture 14: The 18th Century: Rococo

Lecture 14: Baroque Architecture in England & France; Eighteenth Century French Painting & German Architecture: Rococo

Slide List

Architecture:

St. Paul's Cathedral , London 1675-1709./St. Peter's
Perrault, Le Vau, & LebrunEast Front of the Louvre
Le Vau and Mansart Palace at Versailles

Rococo Painting - eroticism, narrower audience

Watteau, The Dance, 1717/Contrast Brueghel, Peasant Dance.
Boucher, Hercules & Omphale, 1730/Titian, Venus of Urbino.
Fragonard
- The Surprise, 1771-2/ter Borch The Gallant Officer, 1662.
- The Swing, 1767.
Chardin
- The Governess, 173/Vermeer, Woman Weighing Gold, c. 1660.
- House of Cards, 1737.
Vigee-Lebrun, The Artist and her Daughter, 1785.
Contrast: Vermeer, The Art of Painting c.1670. /Rembrandt, The Artist's Studio.
Greuze, The Benefactress/Poussin, The Holy Family on the Steps, 1648.

Rococo Architecture

Boffrand, Princess's Salon, Hotel de Soubise , Paris. 1737-40.
Zimmermann, The Wieskirche, Bavaria, 1745-54.
- Plan.
- Interior.
Neuman, Bishop's Residence, Wurzburg, 1732-43.
- Exterior
- Interior: ceiling
- ceiling and detail