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Rococo Architecture
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Rococo Architecture

The Architecture of Natural Forms
Created byFederico von Borstel
Last updated 8/2021
English
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What you'll learn

  • Rococo Architecture
  • The course seeks to enrich your life experience.
  • The course enhances human development.
  • The course promotes self-learning.

Course content

1 section • 11 lectures • 1h 19m total length

  • Introduction1:46

    Explore rococo architecture and its extravagant style, with an introduction to major palaces like Versailles and Catherine's Palace, and the architects associated with the rococo era.

  • Rococo Architecture 24:00

    Explore how rococo architecture in France emerged as a lighter continuation of baroque, blending opulence, grace, and playfulness with organic forms, pastel colors, gold, and mirrors across Europe.

  • Rococo Architecture 316:58

    Discover Versailles as a baroque palace evolving into rococo lightness under Louis XIV. Explore the Hall of Mirrors, pastel interiors, grand rooms, and light-driven design.

  • Rococo Architecture 419:37

    Explore Versailles' landscape architecture, including the back gardens, grand canal, and 800 hectares of formal French design, with gravity-fed fountains and royal symbolism shaping a nobles' utopian retreat.

  • Rococo Architecture 510:17

    Catherine Palace showcases rococo architecture with light-blue and gold interiors, ornate woodwork, mirrors, and the famous Amber Room.

  • Rococo Architecture 66:26

    Explore the early 18th-century Augustin spring palace, a palladium style building with a greco-roman facade and a remarkable Neumann staircase, plus formal gardens blending French and northern English traditions.

  • Rococo Architecture 74:41

    Journey through a rococo hunting lodge on the North Rhine that reveals the origins of small aristocratic buildings later expanded for more functions, with falconry, mirrors, and curved plaster decor.

  • Rococo Architecture 83:23

    Explore a grand rococo residence in Germany designed by Balthasar Neumann, featuring integrated gardens, a dramatic split stairway, and ceiling frescoes by Giovanni illustrating wealth from global trade.

  • Rococo Architecture 92:13

    Discover how Rococo architecture elevates a basilica with Brazilian pink crystalline onyx columns, refined frescoes and stucco work, and elegant white and gold details.

  • Rococo Architecture 104:43

    Trace the Rococo transition in Spain from Philippe V’s reign to the gilded salon Gus Parini, and connect opulence to the French Revolution under Louis XVI.

  • Course Catalog5:32

    Navigate the course catalog and engage with Rococo architecture themes presented in this lecture to help learners locate relevant content.

Requirements

  • There are no prerequisites for this course.

Description

This is a course on Rococo Architecture. Rococo Architecture blossomed in Europe following the Baroque Period of Architecture. It is an architectural style associated with wealth, prestige and power. It is a light and gay architecture based on natural forms such as shells and vines. It is an architecture that creates Sans soucis environments, environments without worries. Rococo Architecture created a very distinctive style that influenced buildings throughout Europe and by extension to other parts of the world.

Who this course is for:

  • This course is for anyone interested in Architecture and Rococo Architecture in particular.

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