FAH245H1- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 114 pages long!)
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Rococo: it isn"t just a way of explaining design but more the aristocracy especially in. Hall of mirrors, versailles, begun 1669 hard to convey what the associations of rococo, art, and society have all added up to. The swing, jean-honore fragonard, 1766 takes what boucher began to do and pushes it into overdrive. Pyramid of cestius, piranesi, 1761 interest in ancient monuments that had still existed in one form or another but had been forgotten. 6 we know this from a critic diderot who made much of the gesture of the cupid who is being pulled out of the basket and presented for sale. 7 one of the amazing things that seems to have happened is that a particular por- trait painter living in rome called pompeo batoni became the almost unofficial painter to young aristocrats making their way through the grant tour.
