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Showing 1 to 20 of 20 for “"rococo"”.
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Dining and revelry in French rococo art
… of the theme of the 'hunt luncheon' in the Rococo period, within the context of the châteaux renovations undertaken during the reign of Louis XV. In 1730s, the young king commissioned four paintings for newly conceived private dining rooms at Versailles and Fontainebleau. For the king's new …
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Claude III Audran: Ornemaniste of the Rococo Style
… design adds to the historical narrative of the rococo period.</p>
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O pombalino religioso: na estética das igrejas cariocas setecentistas
… and elements which belongs to maneirism and rococo styles as well as some other trends of the late barroque (including the "roman rococo") on religious facades of that period in the capital of the colony. This formal hybridism observed in the shapes was also found in the eclectic ideology of …
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Faking it : the seduction of surface
… three of my personal obsessions -- the French Rococo, television, and craft materials -- and culminates with a collection of wearable sculptures that satirize the often-ostentatious masquerade of American mating rituals. Channeling a carnivalesque Rococo spirit, I parody gender stereotypes and …
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Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo's Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy
… to reinvigorate history painting at a time when Rococo themes dominated. With this challenge before him, Tournehem invited ten of the better known academic painters to produce works which challenged the norms of the popular frivolous style. De Tournehem expected edifying subject matter, such as …
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Painting for the Eye: Carle Vanloo's Drunken Silenus and the 18th Century French Academy
… to reinvigorate history painting at a time when Rococo themes dominated. With this challenge before him, Tournehem invited ten of the better known academic painters to produce works which challenged the norms of the popular frivolous style. De Tournehem expected edifying subject matter, such as …
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Breaking (Down) the Sound Barrier: Explorations of Sound Patterning as a Distinct and Disparate Layer of Meaning
… of the nearly Baroque, Baroque Baroque, and rococo to categorize kinds of poems, techniques such as syntax, alliteration, assonance, and rhythm are identified and addressed in various contemporary poems from Karen Volkman, Lucie Brock-Broido, and Jorie Graham. The study concludes by …
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A originalidade da obra de Ignacio Ferreira Pinto no contexto da talha carioca na segunda metade do século XVIII
… work. The occurrence of a peculiar typology of rococo retabulo was observed in this period where the most important models were made by Mestre Inacio and Mestre Valentim. Mestre Inacio's personal data and artistic production were gathered based on the information of documents collected in …
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Fashion, Femininity, Frivolity: Marie Antoinette and the Rococco Legacy
… However, the effects of anti-fashion, anti-Rococo, and anti-woman sentiment in late-eighteenth-century culture continue to color our perception of the "frivolous," feminine world she represents. This thesis explores the relationship between women, fashion, art, and politics in eighteenth- …
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Study and design of a synagogue
… typical of Italian renaissance architecture. The Rococo ark from another synagogue in Venice but built in the eighteenth century shows that in a given location, synagogue design followed the path of architecture as a whole. In Amsterdam in 1925, a reform synagogue might have been virtually …
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Solitude: identification of its furnishings from 1830 to 1880
… ones, some of which may have been in the Rococo Revival style. Compared with the other appraisements studied, the furnishings of the Prestons were moderately to highly priced, indicating that theirs was one of the more comfortable homes in the area.
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Total Artifice: Neo-Gothic Literary and Visual Art in Britain 1750-1789
… one particular kind of organizing logic—the ‘rococo Gothic’—to its furthest limits. The same is true in my later chapters, which focus on the luxurious, and punishingly refined neo-Gothic techniques of the architect Robert Adam, and the painter Benjamin West. Here I develop a broader, …
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Maiden’s Fashion As Eternal Becomings: Victorian Maidens and Sugar Sweet Cuties Donning Japanese Street Fashion in Japan and North America
… that draws on Victorian-era children’s clothing, Rococo aesthetics, and Western Punk and Gothic subculture. It is worn by teenage girls and women of a wide range of ages, and through the flow of related media and clothing aided by the Internet, Lolita style has become a global phenomenon. Wearers …
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Rex Whistler (1905-1944) Patronage and Artistic Identity
… revival, the emergent enthusiasm for Baroque and Rococo style and the rediscovery of the Regency period. Equally, a case is made for Whistler’s understanding of the new area of advertising and design that developed in the 1920s and 30s, in which he played a substantial part. The thesis also argues …
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An American Jesuit Treasury of Religious Art: The Van Ackeren Collection in the Greenlease Gallery at Rockhurst University
… that date from the late medieval through the rococo periods. The works that comprise the collection are of Italian, German, Austrian, French, and Spanish provenance and their mediums range from lindenwood, polychromed wood, alabaster, and marble statues, to paintings rendered in tempera on …
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Genoese baroque painting
… discussing the expressionism of Magnasco, the rococo prettiness of Lorenzo de Ferrari and the academic refinement of Ratti.</p>
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Rokoko - Mode : Rokokorezeption in der deutschen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts
Die Arbeit befasst sich mit der Wiederaufnahme des Rokokos in der deutschen Malerei des 19. Jahrhunderts. Nachdem zunächst der Begriff Rokoko negativ geprägt war, geht aus der kunsthistorischen Literatur des 19. Jahrhunderts der allmähliche Wechsel zu seiner positiven Konnotation und seiner …
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Italian frescoes in German baroque palaces: visual culture and princely power in the Holy Roman Empire
Beginning in Central Europe in the 1690s and spreading to the German principalities of the Holy Roman Empire by 1700, large-scale Italian ceiling paintings soared in popularity as nobles of all ranks competed with one another to produce ever more lavish decorative schemes that expressed their claim …
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Interior Decoration as Fine Art: Rachel Feinstein and <i>The Sorbet Room</i>, 2001.
Rachel Feinstein, wife of figure painter John Currin and mother of three also works as a fine artist. Primarily a sculptor and installation artist, Feinstein combines fairytales with reality. Often her contributions to the art world are overlooked due to her active social life and vast network of …