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Essay

American Rococo

October 1, 2003

By Morrison H. Heckscher

The Rococo crossed the Atlantic via three principal means: engraved designs in print series and books, imported objects, and immigrant artisans.

editorial

Rococo and the (Disney) Renaissance

February 18, 2022

By Rachel High

Curator Wolf Burchard and producer Don Hahn explore how 18th-century European decorative arts inspired Walt Disney.

editorial

Thank You Very Much, Mr. Roboto

August 20, 2014

By Andrea Puccio and Catherine Paolillo

Assistant Museum Librarian Andrea Puccio and Senior Library Associate Catherine Paolillo discuss Watson Library's new iPad sign-in "book."

Publication

American Rococo, 1750–1775: Elegance in Ornament

Publication

"Pattern Books by Gilles and Joseph Demarteau for Firearms Decoration in the French Rococo Style"

Essay

Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel (1883–1971) and the House of Chanel

October 1, 2004

By Jessa Krick

Chanel succeeded in packaging and marketing her own personal attitudes and style, making her a key arbiter of women’s taste throughout the twentieth century.

Essay

Boucher’s most original contribution to Rococo painting was his reinvention of the pastoral, a form of idealized landscape populated by shepherds and shepherdesses in silk dress, enacting scenes of erotic and sentimental love.

Essay

European Revivalism

October 1, 2006

By Sara J. Oshinsky

The nineteenth century was marked by an array of revival styles ranging from the classicism of Greece and Rome to the Renaissance and the later Rococo and Neoclassical styles.

Essay

American Furniture, 1730–1790: Queen Anne and Chippendale Styles

December 1, 2009

By Nicholas C. Vincent

By the 1780s the sweeping curves of the late Baroque and the exuberant ornament of the Rococo were giving way to a renewed interest in classical precedents, which found expression in the delicate, rectilinear forms of the Neoclassical, or Federal, style.

editorial

A First Look at Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 2003–2014

November 10, 2014

By Donald J. La Rocca

Curator Donald J. La Rocca introduces the exhibition Arms and Armor: Notable Acquisitions 2003–2014, opening tomorrow.

Art

Architectural elements from the La Roque Mansion, Astoria, New York

Date: ca. 1852
Accession Number: Inst.65.4

Rococo Revival Parlor

The Richard and Gloria Manney John Henry Belter Rococo Revival Parlor presents a sumptuous mid-nineteenth-century parlor characteristic of affluent homes in the United States. It features furniture by one of the most innovative and virtuosic American cabinetmakers of the period in a room whose architectural elements are from the double parlor of a Classical Revival style villa built around 1850 in Astoria, Queens, for a prosperous businessman named Horace Whittemore (1813–1871).