The French Dining Room is so called because the eighteenth-century Rococo panelling ( or boiseries ) came from the Chateau d ' Asnieres near Paris, a chateau which was leased to Louis XV and his mistress Madame de Pompadour as a hunting lodge.

Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

In the 18th century, Baroque Art was replaced by the more elegant and elaborate Rococo style.

Hence the Rococo style was highly dominated by the feminine taste and influence.

The style was used in bronze by Bernini for his spectacular St. Peter's baldachin, actually a ciborium ( which displaced Constantine's columns ), and thereafter became very popular with Baroque and Rococo church architects, above all in Latin America, where they were very often used, especially on a small scale, as they are easy to produce in wood by turning on a lathe ( hence also the style's popularity for spindles on furniture and stairs ).

Cultural works, fine arts and architecture flourished, with more elaborate styles that were influenced by the Baroque and Rococo movements in Europe.

Towards the end of the 18th century, Rococo started to fall out of fashion, and it was largely supplanted by the Neoclassic style.

Italian architects of the late Baroque / early Rococo were wooed to Catholic ( Southern ) Germany, Bohemia and Austria by local princes, bishops and prince-bishops.

Inspired by their example, regional families of Central European builders went further, creating churches and palaces that took the local German Baroque style to the greatest heights of Rococo elaboration and sensation.

Rococo still maintained the Baroque taste for complex forms and intricate patterns, but by this point, it had begun to integrate a variety of diverse characteristics, including a taste for Oriental designs and asymmetric compositions.

The Rococo style was spread by French artists and engraved publications.

By 1785, Rococo had passed out of fashion in France, replaced by the order and seriousness of Neoclassical artists like Jacques Louis David.

In a full-blown Rococo design, like the Table d ' appartement ( c. 1730 ), by German designer J.

The styles, despite both being richly decorated, also had different themes ; the Baroque, for instance, was more serious, placing an emphasis on religion, and was often characterized by Christian themes ( as a matter of fact, the Baroque began in Rome as a response to the Protestant Reformation ); Rococo architecture was an 18th-century, more secular, adaptation of the Baroque which was characterized by more light-hearted and jocular themes.

Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in Great Britain.

During the Rococo era Portraiture was an important component of painting in all countries, but especially in Great Britain, where the leaders were William Hogarth ( 1697 – 1764 ), in a blunt realist style, and Francis Hayman ( 1708 – 1776 ), Angelica Kauffman who was Swiss, ( 1741 – 1807 ), Thomas Gainsborough and Joshua Reynolds ( 1723 – 1792 ), in more flattering styles influenced by Antony Van Dyck ( 1599 – 1641 ).

The sculptor Edmé Bouchardon represented Cupid engaged in carving his darts of love from the club of Hercules ( illustration ); this serves as an excellent symbol of the Rococo style — the demigod is transformed into the soft child, the bone-shattering club becomes the heart-scathing arrows, just as marble is so freely replaced by stucco.

An interesting illustration of the hostility sometimes aroused by this style ( similar to that of early Modernists to High Victorian style ) can be found in the critical view of Rococo taken by the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia, especially on the unsuitable nature of Rococo for ecclesiastical contexts.

" More exuberant arabesque designs by Jean Bérain the Elder are an early " intimation " of the Rococo, which was to take the arabesque into three dimensions in reliefs.

The Zwinger ( Der Dresdner Zwinger ) is a palace in Dresden, eastern Germany, built in Rococo style and designed by court architect Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann.

Other Rococo painters include: Jean François de Troy ( 1679 – 1752 ), Jean-Baptiste van Loo ( 1685 – 1745 ), his two sons Louis-Michel van Loo ( 1707 – 1771 ) and Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo ( 1719 – 1795 ), his younger brother Charles-André van Loo ( 1705 – 1765 ), and Nicolas Lancret ( 1690 – 1743 ).

François Boucher () ( 29 September 1703 – 30 May 1770 ) was a French painter, a proponent of Rococo taste, known for his idyllic and voluptuous paintings on classical themes, decorative allegories representing the arts or pastoral occupations, intended as a sort of two-dimensional furniture.

Born in Paris, the son of a lace designer Nicolas Boucher, François Boucher was perhaps the most celebrated decorative artist of the 18th century, with most of his work reflecting the Rococo style.

Its Great Hall ( Riddersalen ) featured woodcarvings ( boiserie ) by Louis August le Clerc, paintings by François Boucher and stucco by Giovanni Battista Fossati, and is acknowledged widely as perhaps the finest Danish Rococo interior.

Jean François de Troy ( January 27, 1679, Paris – January 26, 1752, Rome ) was a French Rococo painter and tapestry designer.

Architects who were renowned for their constructions using the style include Francesco Bartolomeo Rastrelli, an Italian architect who worked in Russia and who was noted for his lavish and opulent works, Philip de Lange, who worked in both Danish and Dutch Rococo architecture, or Matthäus Daniel Pöppelmann, who worked in the late Baroque style and who contributed to the reconstruction of the city of Dresden, in Germany.

While in France during the Rococo era Jean-Baptiste Greuze was the favorite painter of Denis Diderot ( 1713 – 1785 ), and Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( 1704 – 1788 ), and Élisabeth Vigée-Lebrun were highly accomplished Portrait painters and History painters.

Marquise de Pompadour ( mistress of King Louis XV ), whose name became synonymous with Rococo art, was a great fan of Boucher's, and had the painter under her protection: it is particularly in his portraits of her that this style is clearly exemplified.

His name, along with that of his patron Madame de Pompadour, had become synonymous with the French Rococo style, leading the Goncourt brothers to write: " Boucher is one of those men who represent the taste of a century, who express, personify and embody it.

* San Juan de Dios church-museum, Baroque and Rococo circular church with the remains of the Moorish palace mosque from the 12th century in the basament, called Alcázar Nasir.

The Marquise de Pompadour was an accomplished woman with a good eye for Rococo interiors.

His early work is in the simple Queen Anne-styles, following classical French models, but de Lamerie is noted for his elaborate Rococo style of the 1730s, particularly the richly-decorated works of an unidentified craftsman, the Maynard Master.

The curving outbuildings of Schwetzingen inspired the smaller Rococo perfections of Schloss Benrath, with its quarter arcs of matching corps de logis embracing a formal sheet of water, built for Carl Theodor near Düsseldorf, 1756 – 1770.

The main architects involved in the construction and refurbishment of the site were Johann Friedrich Nette ( from 1704 to 1714 ), Donato Giuseppe Frisoni ( from 1714 to 1733 ), Philippe de La Guêpière ( 1757 – 1758 ), who built the Palace Theatre and refurbished the corps de logis in Rococo style, and Friedrich Thouret.

Maurice Quentin de La Tour ( 5 September 1704 – 17 February 1788 ) was a French Rococo portraitist who worked primarily with pastels.

he was a great figure in his day, around whose modest and kindly personality there waged opposing storms of denunciation and applause, as the Rococo style he embodied was rejected in favor of Neoclassicism ; Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac asserted that he had delivered a mortal blow at sculpture.

Étienne Maurice Falconet ( 1 December 1716 – 4 January 1791 ) is counted among the first rank of French Rococo sculptors, whose patron was Mme de Pompadour.

Dating from 1564, the Jauja Cathedral ( Iglesia Matriz de Jauja ) was built in Baroque and Rococo style.

As Guerlain's second generation in-house perfumer, Aimé was the creator of many classic compositions, including Fleur d ' Italie ( 1884 ), Rococo ( 1887 ) and Eau de Cologne du Coq ( 1894 ).

What was new was a refusal to credit the higher status of certain types, where the taxonomy implied a preference for tragedy and the sublime to comedy and the Rococo.

Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, and the fashion for Rococo was giving way to a more classical style.

In such a way, Rococo artists opted for a more jocular, florid and graceful approach to Baroque art and architecture.

William Hogarth helped develop a theoretical foundation for Rococo beauty.

Though not intentionally referencing the movement, he argued in his Analysis of Beauty ( 1753 ) that the undulating lines and S-curves prominent in Rococo were the basis for grace and beauty in art or nature ( unlike the straight line or the circle in Classicism ).

The beginning of the end for Rococo came in the early 1760s as figures like Voltaire and Jacques-François Blondel began to voice their criticism of the superficiality and degeneracy of the art.

The British were among the first to revive the " Louis XIV style " as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.

In those Continental contexts where Rococo is fully in control, sportive, fantastic, and sculptured forms are expressed with abstract ornament using flaming, leafy or shell-like textures in asymmetrical sweeps and flourishes and broken curves ; intimate Rococo interiors suppress architectonic divisions of architrave, frieze, and cornice for the picturesque, the curious, and the whimsical, expressed in plastic materials like carved wood and above all stucco ( as in the work of the Wessobrunner School ).

Antoine Watteau, Embarkation for Cythera | Pilgrimage on the Isle of Cythera ( 1717, Louvre Museum | Louvre ) captures the frivolity and sensuousness of Rococo painting.

Rococo is incompatible with the solemnity of the Divine Office, nor is it suitable for the elements of worship such as the Tabernacle, the altar or the pulpit.

In regards to larger structures and objects, Rococo might be appealing – although perhaps only because of its baroque roots that eventually become apparent –, but its fantastic overtones and features are not suitable for the large walls of most churches.

Chinoiserie is the catch-all term for the fashion for Chinese themes in decoration in Western Europe, beginning in the late 17th century and peaking in waves, especially Rococo Chinoiserie, ca.

Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello and orchestra have an important place in the instrument's repertoire.