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.

Whether seen as a variation of Baroque or an autonomous style, Rococo yields to the Neoclassical ideals of classical harmony, symmetry, and solemnity in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.

Rococo was like Baroque that got shrunk in the wash -- lighter, frillier, and more delicate. ♪♪ In the decor of this royal palace, you can see how Rococo is even fancier than fancy Baroque -- ...

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 ...

To understand the resurgence, we have to look back to early 18th-century France. Rococo didn’t appear out of nowhere. It rose in the wake of Baroque absolutism—that is, the era when Louis XIV ...

This Neo-Rococo rise has been simmering in the cultural ether for some time now. A touchstone is filmmaker Sofia Coppola’s now cult-classic 2006 movie Marie Antoinette.The film featured ...

In a handsome new book with a sky-high price, Baroque and Rococo in Latin America (Macmillan; $16.50), he gives a rich account in words and pictures of what he saw.

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, ...

Admiring spectacular architecture, which includes some of the best examples of Baroque and Rococo, is one of the things to do ...

A lighter, more frivolous counterpart to the Baroque, Rococo emerged in 1720s France, and its artworks can be generally categorized as paintings of the upper classes lounging about, flirting, and ...

The decoration Mr. Trump has splattered across the Oval Office is inspired by European Baroque and Rococo of the 1600s and 1700s, when power was shown through ornate displays of grotesque abundance.