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Category: /History
…or upholstered with colorful textiles.”(How to make Wood Furniture for your Home). In the 18th century, often called the golden age of furniture making, there were three Dyer4 succeeding basic styles: the late baroque, the rococo, the Neoclassical. The change…
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Category: /Literature/Novels
…, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass.” If just this quote had been read, one would have thought that the rocket landed on Earth. Bradbury, using his wonderful…
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Category: /Literature/English
…appealing is the small Linderhof, a jewel of rococo design near Oberammergau. Ludwig's Herrenchiemsee palace on an island in the lake named Chiemsee was modeled after Louis XIV's magnificent edifice at Versailles, near Paris. Versailles has other imitations…
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…or aristocratic birth. Mozart excelled in every form in which he composed. His contemporaries found the restless ambivalence and complicated emotional content of his music difficult to understand. Accustomed to the light, superficial style of rococo music, his…
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Category: /History
…palaces. Among those most recently built are those of Ludwig II of Bavaria in the 19th century. The most famous and most frequently pictured is Neuschwanstein, located near Fussen. But for many the most appealing is the small Linderhof, a jewel of rococo design…
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…in soft-paste porcelain reflect the splendor of the French royal court of the rococo period. The Sevres factory produced hard-paste porcelain beginning in 1769, when the secrets of its manufacture became known in France. The factory continued to turn out soft…
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…porcelain reflect the splendor of the French royal court of the rococo period. The Sevres factory produced hard-paste porcelain beginning in 1769, when the secrets of its manufacture became known in France. The factory continued to turn out soft-paste porcelain…
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Category: /Literature
…takes place in the 18th century Rococo France. The story mostly focuses on two bored rich astrocrats Marquise Isabelle de Mertuil who is played by a wonderful Glenn Close, and Vicomte Sebastien de Valmont who is played by John Malkovich. Together…
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…. With this change in social philosophy came changes in musical trends. Previous Baroque style developed in to a new Classical, formed by a sensitive and profuse with ornamentation French rococo style, vocal and instrumental Italian gallant style, and northern German…
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…a road for all other styles to come, showing that different doesn't necessarily mean abhorrent. The Baroque period came after the technically perfect Renaissance period, and was followed be the Rococo period. Most people cancel the baroque period out…
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