"It's the opposite of / Baroque, so I want / none of it,” Angie Estes declares in a poem called “Sans Serif,” from Chez Nous (2004). That brisk and irregularly rhymed poem announces Estes’s opposition ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. You might know Rococo as the late Baroque-period art style from 18th-century France. It's known for ornate, playful, and ...

They contain some of the objects most full of joie de vivre in the V&A's vast collection, yet the baroque and rococo galleries themselves have for decades been dingy, dark and disorientating. A ...

Olivia Horsfall Turner, the chief curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects in London, untangles some easily confused design terms. By Julia Halperin Art Nouveau Alphonse Mucha’s “Summer” ...

Baroque & Rococo : idea & image -- Setting the stage : social, cultural, & artistic institutions -- The Baroque church : setting for mystery, propaganda, & worship ...

This week, we are revisiting one of our favorite podcasts of late, where Artnet Editor Katie White took us through what she dubs the Neo-Rococo movement. It is perfect timing to have a listen, ...

In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the National Museum in Wrocław, southwestern Poland, has put on a grand exhibition called “Rococo Madness" to trace the fascination with late Baroque art in ...

When facing the guillotine In December of 1793, Madame du Barry, the last mistress of King Louis XV, infamously made her final request, “Please, Mr. Executioner, just a little moment more!” Du Barry, ...