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Né à Paris au début du XVIIIe siècle, mais bientôt adopté dans toute la France et plus tard dans d’autres pays, principalement l’Allemagne et l’Autriche.
Rococo, style in interior design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century but was soon adopted throughout France and later in other countries, principally Germany and Austria. It is characterized by lightness, elegance, and an exuberant use of curving natural forms in ornamentation. The word Rococo is derived from the French word rocaille, which denoted the shell-covered rock work that was used to decorate artificial grottoes.
At the outset the Rococo style represented a reaction against the ponderous design of Louis XIV’s Palace of Versailles and the official Baroque art of his reign. (…)
Cupid a Captive, oil on canvas by François Boucher, 1754; in the Wallace Collection, London. 164.5 × 85.5 cm. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Wallace Collection, London; photograph 
French Rococo chairs by Louis Delanois (1731–92); in the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris. Courtesy of the Bibliothèque de l’Arsenal, Paris; photograph by Eddy van der Veen 
A room decorated in the Rococo style, Nymphenburg palace, near Munich. Gunther Schmidt/Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. 
Cuvilliés, François de, the Elder: Amalienburg Amalienburg, hunting lodge of Nymphenburg, near Munich; designed by François de Cuvilliés the Elder. Rufus46GNU Free Documentation License Version 1.2 
Chelsea soft-paste porcelain vase in the French Rococo style of Sèvres ware with “mazarin blue” ground and a “reserve” panel painting by John Donaldson (after François Boucher), gold anchor mark, c. 1763; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Courtesy of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London 
Prague: Golz-Kinský Palace The Rococo facade of the Golz-Kinský Palace, Prague. © artush/Fotolia
De la France, le style rococo s’est répandu dans les années 1730 vers les terres catholiques germanophones, où il a été adapté à un style brillant d’architecture religieuse qui combinait l’élégance française avec la fantaisie sud-allemande
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From France the Rococo style spread in the 1730s to the Catholic German-speaking lands, where it was adapted to a brilliant style of religious architecture that combined French elegance with south German fantasy as well as with a lingering Baroque interest in dramatic spatial and plastic effects. Some of the most beautiful of all Rococo buildings outside France are to be seen in Munich—for example, the refined and delicate Amalienburg (1734–39), in the park of Nymphenburg, and the Residenztheater (1750–53; rebuilt after World War II), both by François de Cuvilliés. Among the finest German Rococo pilgrimage churches are the Vierzehnheiligen (1743–72), near Lichtenfels, in Bavaria, designed by Balthasar Neumann, and the Wieskirche (begun 1745–54), near Munich, built by Dominikus Zimmermann and decorated by his elder brother Johann Baptist Zimmermann. G.W. von Knobelsdorff and Johann Michael Fischer also created notable buildings in the style, which utilized a profusion of stuccowork and other decoration.
In Italy the Rococo style was concentrated primarily in Venice, where it was epitomized by the large-scale decorative paintings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. The urban vistas of Francesco Guardi and Canaletto were also influenced by the Rococo. Meanwhile, in France the style had already begun to decline by the 1750s when it came under attack from critics for its triviality and ornamental excesses, and by the 1760s the new, more austere movement of Neoclassicism began to supplant the Rococo in France.
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