Famous scientists
He invented the modern telescope
Galileo Galilei
A big change, especially in a society or country.
Revolution
A group with a very active rol during 17th Century and French Revolution but shadowed by History.
Women
This is the country where this style was born in the 18th century.
France
The most famous painting of Rococo style and its author.
"The Swing" by Jean Honoré Fragonard
He described the planetary motion around the Sun with elliptical orbits.
Johannes Kepler
A model of the Universe where the Earth is at the centre.
Heliocentric Theory
She is called the "Mother of Chemistry"
Madame Marie Anne Lavoisier
The Rococo buildings had plain facades with very decorated interiors. True or false?
True
This is our Spanish version of Versalles palace in Segovia. Say its name and the Spanish king who commissioned it.
La Granja Palace, commissioned by king Philip V of Bourbon.
He created a classification system for animals and plants (taxonomy)
Carl Linnaeus
A model of the Universe where the Sun is in the middle.
Heliocentric Theory
She was known for being and important patron that supported artists and intellectuals.
Madame de Pompadour
Rococo reflected a hedonistic lifestile. What kind of lifestyle is that?
A happy and careless way of life.
This is the most famous example of Rococo decorated room in the Royal Palace of Madrid.
The Gasperini Room
He created the smallpox vaccine
Edward Jenner
To test out a hypothesis
Experiment
She is consider to be one of the first feminists in History.
Olympe de Gouges
Enlightened thinkers criticised this style. Why?
Because of its superficiality.
An exception in Rococo decoration: a Spanish palace with a very ornated facade with two figures representing Júcar and Turia rivers.
Palace of Marqués de Dos Aguas in Valencia
He was a Scottish inventor who improved Thomas Newcomen´s steam engine. His new steam engine was fundamental for the Industrial Revolution.
James Watt
An empirical or experimental method for acquiring knowledge that characterize the develop of science since the 17th century
The scientific method
A Girondine spy who killed Marat, an importan Jacobine politician.
Charlotte Corday
Rococo was replaced by a more serious style. Which one?
Neoclassicism
In Spanish we call the game that represents this Rococo painting "La gallinita ciega". Say its English title and author.
"Blind Man´s Bluff" by Jean Honoré Fragonard.