
Getty Museum Gains Master Works – Renaissance, Rococo & More
The J. Paul Getty Museum has new acquisitions from Renaissance to Rococo and beyond, including a lost painting La Surprise by French artist Jean Antoine Watteau
The J. Paul Getty Museum has new acquisitions from Renaissance to Rococo and beyond, including a lost painting La Surprise by French artist Jean Antoine Watteau
Watteau’s Soldiers: Scenes of Military Life in Eighteenth-Century France is an exhibition on show at The Frick Collection, New York, July 12 – October 2, 2016
Mallett, of London and New York started 2016 with an exhibition at their New York gallery of fine eighteenth century English furniture, clocks and decorations
Sydney visual artist Alexia Sinclair has a unique ability to articulate her love of knowledge and learning through visual art and Rococo is her new masterpiece
The exhibition Metropolitan Vanities at The Met NY should attract those whose curiosity may lead them to understand, snapping a ‘selfie’ is about so much more
The German Roentgen family cabinetmaking firm in operation c1740-1795 produced some of the most outstanding furniture of their age in the neoclassical style
The Rococo style was delicately elegant with a distinct preference for asymmetry. It was presided over by France’s King Louis XV’s mistress, Madame du Pompadour, a sophisticated lady of impeccable style.
In the early 18th century arabesque and grotesque designs by Berain, Huet, Audran & Watteau were desirable forms of decorative art used in intimate interiors
An 18th century village master craftsman, who designed and made furniture in rural Yorkshire Thomas Chippendale (1718 – 1779) was a progressive ambitious chap