Influenced by Art Nouveau, this movement (created in 1897 by Gustav Klimt, Carl Moll, and Josef Hoffmann) was not an anonymous artistic revolution. Defining itself as a "total art", without any political or commercial constraint, the Viennese Secession represented the ideological turmoil that affected craftsmen, architects, graphic artists, and designers from this period. Turning away from an e…
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian Barocco, the French created the term Rococo. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th-century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe. Extravagant and light, Rococo responded perfectly to the spontaneity of the aristocracy of the time. In many aspects, this art was linked to its predecessor, B…
The Baroque period lasted from the beginning of the 17th-century to the middle of the 18th-century. Baroque art was artists' response to the Catholic Church's demand for solemn grandeur following the Council of Trent, and through its monumentality and grandiloquence, it seduced the great European courts. Amongst the Baroque arts, architecture has, without doubt, left the greatest mark in Europe…
Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velázquez ne le 6 juin 1599 - le 6 août 1660), dit Diego Velázquez, ou Diego Vélasquez en français, est un peintre baroque considéré comme l'un des principaux représentants de la peinture espagnole et l'un des maîtres de la peinture universelle. Parmi ses Å“uvres les plus célèbres :Les Ménines, Les Fileuses. Le Musée du Prado possède une cinquantaine d'Å…