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…Rococo and Neoclassicism The artists Jean-Honore Fragonard and Jaques-Louis David both successfully embody their respective stylistic differences. Fragonard's style of painting is Rococo, which is characterized by its softness, asymmetry and curviness…

…. They worked mainly for Royal and aristocratic patrons. Roccoco painters also created a new category of painting called the "Fete Galante." These paintings depicted gatherings of elegantly dressed, noble figures in parks and gardens. Rococo painting had its roots…

…Art changed dramatically between the Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and Rococo periods. Each period has many different characteristics that distinguish it from the others. Many significant discoveries were made in art and architecture during this time…

…The Rococo and the Age of Sensibility "The Italian style and the French style have long divided the Republic of Music in France. For my part, I have always valued those works which have merit, without regard for their composer or country of origin…

…French Rococo painter, Jean-Honore Fragonard, is one of the most noted artists of the eighteenth century. Many aspects played a significant role in the influence of the works that Fragonard produced, including the aristocracy, his patrons, life…

…, and there were many at the time, with this play. This was a cause for much controversy between Moliere and many powers that be. #2 Rococo art became popular in Europe – especially France- during the eighteenth century. This is due mostly to Antoine Watteau…

…Revival [651] Palladianism [36] Pop Art and Nouveau Rélisme [53] Pre-Columbian Americas [279] Pre-Raphaelitism [48] Prehistoric and Celtic Europe [131] Realism and Naturalism [80] Renaissance and Mannerism [2807] Rococo [341] Romanticism [260…

…" purpose. Jean-Jacques Rousseau, who contrasted the innate virtue of man in his natural state with the artifice of civilization, noted that the prevailing rococo style "contributed little to . . . public virtue." Beginning in 1737, the Royal Academy…

…in commissioned art and architecture and the refinement of art scholarship also gave rise to this movement. Finally, the general reaction to the exorbitant styles of Baroque and Rococo necessitated a return to the more orderly ideals of antiquity. The Neoclassical…

…painters. David was born into a prosperous middle-class family in Paris on August 30, 1748, and studied at the Académie Royale under the rococo painter J. M. Vien. He developed his own style basing it on classical figures and basing form and structure on Roman…