To learn more about neoclassical architecture, including its most common characteristics and notable examples in the public ... exuberance of the Baroque and Rococo styles. Drawing inspiration ...

This lineage situates examples and broadens repertoire ... The position of Rococo in the historiography of art and architecture itself is not a consensus: it can be understood as a variation ...

the use of stucco in 18th-century Rococo architecture offers a surprisingly instructive example. For more than a century, from the early 17th to the middle of the 18th century, European artists ...

Set in an idyllic garden landscape, Augustusburg Castle (the sumptuous residence of the prince-archbishops of Cologne) and the Falkenlust hunting lodge (a small rural folly) are among the earliest ...

The 18th-century Augustusburg Palace – one of Germany’s earliest examples of Rococo architecture – draws visitors from all over the world. Brühl itself, 11 miles south of Cologne ...