The baroque and the rococo are forms that dwell in spectacle: gilded and mirrored surfaces, ornate floral designs, sumptuous fabrics, and paintings and sculptures imbued with intense drama.

The position of Rococo in the historiography of art and architecture itself is not a consensus: it can be understood as a variation of the Baroque or as a movement and style in its own right ...

The Rococo has traditionally been understood as the final manifestation of the Baroque era from which it emerged. The undulating lines and high drama of the Baroque, so closely associated with ...

For Mayorga, Rococo is not a style that denotes status. Quite the opposite, embedded in the Churrigueresque (a Mexican architectural Baroque style) glittering surfaces of her large paintings ...

Pu$h Thru' at Monique Meloche Gallery marks Chicago-based artist Yvette Mayorga's first solo exhibition in her hometown since ...

Rococo didn’t appear out of nowhere. It rose in the wake of Baroque absolutism—that is, the era when Louis XIV ruled France with total, unquestioned power. Everything from politics to palace ...

Lighter on the eye than the preceding Baroque style, more sensual than Neoclassicism, Rococo originated in France in the 18 th century, before taking over Europe and embodying the taste of an ...