Showing posts with label Rococo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Rococo. Show all posts

Thursday, December 11, 2014

Terpsichore


Terpsichore by the French Rococo painter Jean-Marc Nattier (1685-1766).

Monday, February 20, 2012

Three Graces

The Three Graces (c. 1763) by the French Rococo painter Carle or Charles-André van Loo (1705–1765). Pure decoration but obvious how much modern pin-up artists owe to Rococo art.

Monday, November 30, 2009

Venus and Amor

Venus Consoling Amor (1751) by the French Rococo painter François Boucher (1703-1770). Boucher is famous for his decorative allegories but usually his enormous influence on late 19th century art is vastly ignored.

Saturday, August 1, 2009

Rococo Venus

The awakening of Venus (1741) by the French Rococo painter Charles-Joseph Natoire (1700-1777).

I think it's evident how big the influence of Rococo on modern nude painting was. Many underestimate this great epoch in painting.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Aurore et Céphale

A mythological subject by the French classical painter Baron Pierre-Narcisse Guérin (1774-1833).

It demonstrates that Rococo was still going on.

Aurore et Céphale (1810)