Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art by Jennifer Milam

Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art Historical Dictionary of. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about Rococo art. Find a huge variety of new & used Art Rococo books online including. of Sydney, Australia) offers a well-written volume on rococo, a movement generally considered to have started in France at the tail end of Louis XIV's reign and continued to the beginnings of the French Revolution. Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art - Jennifer D. The Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers all aspects of Rococo art history through a chronology, an introductory essay, a review of the literature, an extensive bibliography, and over 350 cross-referenced dictionary entries on prominent Rococo painters, sculptors, decorative artists, architects, patrons, theorists, and critics, as well as major centers of artistic production. This Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art covers the core period of 1700 1789 extensively, but since no art movement emerges from nowhere or just disappears, it also reaches back to earlier times, which created the necessary preconditions and also follows on to later times, including the inevitable Ro-coco Revival. Overall, Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art is a fairly comprehensive dictionary on the Rococo art period., Milam (Univ. search numerous times for their chosen novels like this I Like Art Rococo English.

The period produced an extraordinary number of artistic innovators, who challenged received conventions, developed novel subject categories, and eroded hierarchical distinctions between the arts. Click here for the lowest price Hardcover, 9780810861831. During this brief period of less than a century, it spread throughout the courts and cities of Europe, with significant regional variations on the style developing in Bavaria, Potsdam, Venice, and Great Britain. Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art (Historical Dictionaries of Literature and the Arts) by Jennifer D. It flourished during the reign of Louis XV and began to go out of fashion in the second half of the 18th century. Read reviews from the worlds largest community for readers.

The Rococo emerged in France around 1700 as a playful revolt against the grandeur of the Baroque and the solemnity of Classicism.

Historical Dictionary of Rococo Art by Jennifer Milam