The French pieces at the National Gallery of Art show the progression ... Such a piece is classic of Fragonard’s bold rococo painting style.

“I do not feel like that about many other art historical movements ... shells is embedded in the word Rococo itself; Rococo derives from rocaille, the French word for the shells and ...

The father of Rococo painting was Jean Antoine Watteau (French, 1684–1721), who invented a new genre called fêtes galantes, which were scenes of courtship parties. Born close to the Flemish ...

A new exhibit at the Met explores how European design influences, such as French rococo, influenced the work ... He fell in love with the buildings and the art. A subsequent trip through Europe ...

In art historical accounts ... commentary of the failed American Dream — historically contextualized via French Rococo aesthetics — makes for a body of work that interprets the Latinx ...

A fascinating exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art explores something that is ... than that for which the artisans of the French rococo produced their dazzling luxury objects.

He was a young curator in Atlanta organizing a show of French Rococo paintings. The Trinquesse was to be a highlight, but at the final moment, the owner withdrew it. Zafran followed the painting ...

Though the gift includes works covering a wide breadth of French art history, with the works by Rococo painter François Boucher and Romantic painter Théodore Géricault included, it is richest ...

to pair a contemporary abstract artist with a French Rococo artist from the 18th Century. Two of Yukhnovich’s paintings are displayed on the Landing of the Wallace Collection, a place of high ...

The gift makes the Art Institute one of the leading exhibitors of French art outside France ... Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun; Rococo artists François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard; Neoclassical ...