However, there was no "rococo" art—the word "rococo" only emerged following the French Revolution and not commonly used until the early 19th century. Sinuous lines, intricate decoration, and both ...

It was an age of elaboration, in manners and art, essentially frivolous but with a concealed streak of autumnal sadness. Its curlicued style came to be called rococo. Typical of the rococo was its ...

Throughout history, art has been a reflection of society, culture, and the human experience. Famous painters, through their remarkable works, have shaped the art world and left a lasting legacy on ...

Rococo was perhaps the most rebellious of design styles ... Victoria and Albert Museum, London Also important was the St Martin's Lane Academy – known today as the Royal Academy of Arts – which was ...

Arts Society expert lecturer Ralph Hoyle will discuss the Huguenot influence on this most decorative period for silver. His ...

By Zoë Hopkins Once she was cast out of the United States. Today, her art and activism are front and center at an exhilarating Brooklyn Museum retrospective. By Siddhartha Mitter Axel Rüger ...

Despite its French origins, the Rococo masterpiece has strong historical ... and provides us with one of Western art’s earliest and most profound representations of the process of artistic ...

He also resurrected the art of grotto-making, dormant since the 18th century, creating headily sublime aqueous caverns out of tufa and shells, pearls and quartz, feathers and ferns, cameos and ...

At the next lecture for the Arts Society Tring Park, on September 11th at 10.30am at the Civic Centre Berkhamsted, Arts Society expert Ralph Hoyle will examine the social context of mid-18th century ...

He also resurrected the art of grotto-making ... of 9/11 BRIAN SMITH He was equally at home in the perversity of the rococo. His fascination with grottoes was kindled in the late 1970s by a ...