Tuesday, 14 October 2025

{‘The Rococo’ [Extracts from source text with ms notes][continued (3)]}[11th May 1991]

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‘The Rococo was a reaction against the pomposity of the Grand Siècle,* just as, in France at least, Neoclassicism was partly a reaction against the frivolity of the Rococo.’

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** – ibid [Encyclopaedia of Visual Art 4:] 719



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