Known for his fetes galantes, this artist was the leading Rococo painter
What is Antoine Watteau
100
This subject matter dominated both French and English Rococo.
What is nature
100
The most original new style of eighteenth-century architecture
What is Rococo
100
The Four Books of Architecture gave rise to this classical style
What is Palladian
100
"Rococo" comes from these two french words
What is rocaille (rock) and coquille (shell)
200
This artist helped improve the position of women in the arts
What is Adelaide Labille-Guiard
200
Known for his pictures of Classical and historical subjects, this painter was historical painter of King George III and president of the Royal Academy twice
What is Benjamin West
200
The ultimate in German Rococo architecture
What is the Zwinger
200
Horace Walpole's Strawberry Hill is representative of the revival of this architectural style
What is Gothic
200
The importance and use of the scientific method was illustrated in this painting
What is An Experiment on a Bird in the Air Pump
300
Praised as a realist painter by the encyclopediste Diderot, this painter's subjects are in the Netherlandish tradition
What is Jean-Baptiste Chardin
300
Influenced by Flemish and Dutch paintings, this painter took contemporary manners and social conventions as the subjects of his satire
What is William Hogarth
300
This palace has the largest ceiling fresco in the world
What is the Rococo Residenz or Episcopal Palace
300
The Chiswick House was loosely based on this palace
What is Palladio's Villa Rotonda
300
Rococo brought about this fad for Chinese imagery
What is chinoiserie
400
This painter conveyed the excessive wealth and social oblivion of Marie Antoinette in a 1788 portrait
What is Elisabeth Vigee-Lebrun
400
This painting of a famous American icon combines the styles of Baroque and Rococo
What is Paul Revere
400
The ceiling of this church is entirely Rococo, uniting painted surfaces with architecture through ornate illusionism
What is the Church of the Meadow
400
Heightened interest in interior design and antiquity were brought about by the discovery of remains of imperial Roman domestic architecture in these locations
What is Herculaneum and Pompeii
400
Original meaning of the Chinese pagoda
What is Buddhist reliquary or military watchtower
500
This painting is known for its eroticism
What is The Swing
500
This painting centralizes around the motif of a picture within a picture and the importance of Time
What is Time Smoking a Picture
500
The principal feature of the Residenz
What is the staircase
500
This individual re-created a Roman Villa atmosphere in a fireplace niche with Rococo delicacy and a taste of Classical revival
What is Robert Adams
500
Rococo brought about the shift in the center of taste from the court to these two places where guests engaged in the art of conversation and in social and intellectual interchange.