louis xv & madame de pompadour which one dictated the rococo style?
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Louis XV & Madame de Pompadour
Which one dictated the Rococo style?
The Analysis of Beauty, William Hogarth, 1753
•the line of beauty—3D curve; S shape twisted slightly•cabriole leg—taken from the bodily form of a woman
ChaiseRococo
(1720s-60s)
cabriole leg
women & natural forms—major themes in tapestry, upholstery,
ornamentations
Console Table, Louis XV / Rococo Furniture, (1720s-60s)
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
•writes that civilization has become overly refined—resulting in more immoral and vicious people; city conditions
•nobles back in Paris—living amongst the poor
THE PROGRESS OF LOVE
four panels painted in 1771–73 for Madame Du Barry, remaining panels in
1790–91. Oil on canvas
FragonardThe Pursuit; The Meeting; Love Letters;
The Lover Crowned
THE SWING
Late 18th century
Oil on canvas
Fragonard
French Rococo design details:
•mirrors above mantles•boiserie on walls•cabriole leg—dead give away for Rococo•much more delicate, curvacious—distinctly feminine
Clock Room in The Palace at Versailles
Boiserie—gilded wood
ribbons become popular
Hotels Crozat and D’Evreux
•Corps de Logis—perceived front of the home•requires a re-orientation due the irregularity of the site•facades built by Mansart for Louis XIV as public buildings—library, banks, etc…•Lousi XIV dies, nobles need a place to live
Salon Ovale
Hotel de Soubise, Paris, by architect Germain Boffrand, interiors by Charles Natoire, c. 1720s-30
Fauteuil
•scale is smaller—for comfort•wherever body touches chair—padded •gilded (distinctly French)•cabriole leg•textile—naturalistic pattern (large roses); tone on tone; silk
manchettesmanchettes
Bergere•closed armchair•very upholstered•unbroken curved line
Canape
Bureau Plat
Coleshill(country home)
Berkshire, England, architect Sir Roger Pratt,
1650sDouble Pile House
• two rooms deep• central corridor meant for servants—enfilade public• hall—most ornamented and expensive room in the space• parlor, antechamber & chamber sequence nonexistent in
England
Hall at Coleshill(country home)
Georgian interior characteristicsmodeled figuresclassical ordersdelicate motifs
asymmetryundulating linenatural forms
exterior details
Queen Anne Chair, c.1700-30, walnut
•walnut made it difficult to carve details
•sometimes called the parrot chair
•cupid’s bow
•English generally leave back legs square—Marlboro leg
Queen Anne Highboy
c. 1700-30, walnut
Modern Chairs or In the French Style, 1754
Thomas Chippendale, London
various chairs/Pie Crust Side Tableattributed to Thomas Chippendale,
London
plaster Chinoiserie design details
Claydon House
Luke Lightfoot
1750s
Chippendale bed became popular
showed wealth, education, and that you were well
traveled
Chiswick, near London, (Neo-Palladian villa) by Lord Burlington,
1720s
picturesque interiors—color scheme changes dramatically
Strawberry Hill
Gothic Revival Villa, Twickenham, England, by Horace Walpole, et. al.,
1750-70s
picturesque planningrooms are all different shapes and
circulation is unclear
The Great Cloister; Strawberry Hill
Gothic Revival Villa, Twickenham, England, by Horace Walpole, et. al.,
1750-70s
Georgian coloration—color on white; Rococo tone on tone pattern
on wall; Gothic Revival detailing