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Other artists working in this style include artist Marijke Vasey, whose “frame paintings” loosely reference both the mirrors popular in the Rococo era and the frames of the artworks themselves.
Continue uphill and turn around and you’ll see the front of the frame, ornately carved in a Rococo style, brass on a steel frame. “It is based on a frame handed down to me by my family,” she ...
For Baroque, the frames are usually gold or silver gilding. Rococo frames were often made of walnut or mahogany wood, which ...
The words “art restorer” provoke visions of dormer-windowed studios, of flaking oil paintings in Rococo frames, of landscapes emerging from beneath layers of ancient grime. It’s startling ...
Hanging in its original Rococo frame in Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum, a painting captures a placid display of wealth in 18th-century Amsterdam. An ornate carriage house, decorated with classical ...
These may seem like figments of animators’ imaginations, but in fact their genesis comes directly from the French Rococo, the decorative and indulgent 18th-century style that sought to bring ...