Rococo Style Answers
What are the three forms (shapes) of arabesques used in Rococo architecture?
S-shapes, C-shapes, and reversed C-shapes
What Baroque characteristics can you identify in the image above?
Answers may vary. The dolphins and the frivolous figures, as well the silks and satins.
Who had a very successful career as a royal painter, and spent most of his life decorating Versailles and Fountainebleau?
Charles Le Brun
What is the name for the type of room shown above, and what was this type of room used for?
The room is a salon, a lavish setting for fashionable gatherings.
What is depicted in the image above?
Answers may vary. The painting shows a secret encounter between a young man and his sweetheart, who looks over her shoulder anxiously to make sure no one is coming.
Where is the image above located?
in the Kaisersaal in Germany
How is Boucher’s style in the painting above different from that seen in works from other Rococo artists?
Answers may vary. This painting contains robust figures and a sensual feel that is much different than the work of other Rococo painters.
What is depicted in the image above?
Answers may vary. In this painting, the goddess of love, Venus, appears near the center of the composition resting on silks and satins in a giant shell that is being pulled by dolphins. She is accompanied by burly Tritons and sea nymphs who offer her gifts, such as a shell full of pearls.
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