03 — ARTWORK
Rest of the Shepherds
DESHAYS, Jean-Baptiste · 1800 →
- MEDIUM
- Oil on canvas, oval, 50 x 42 cm
- TYPE
- Mythological
PALETTE
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- FILE
- 751 × 900 px · JPEG
COMMENTARY
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This painting follows the type of pastoralRelating to a romantic or idealized image of rural life; in classical literature, to a world peopled by shepherds, nymphs, and satyrs. cabinetA small, private room where works of art, valuables and curiosities were kept and contemplated at leisure; over time the term was used for the collections themselves. Renaissance cabinets played an important role in the development of museums and art galleries. pictures that were quite popular during the RococoA style of design, painting, and architecture dominating the 18th century, often considered the last stage of the Baroque. Developing in the Paris townhouses of the French aristocracy at the turn of the 18th century, Rococo was elegant and ornately decorative, its mood lighthearted and witty. Louis XV furniture, richly decorated with organic forms, is a typical product. Leading exponents of the Rococo sryle included the French painters Antoine Watteau (1684-1721) and Jean-Honoré Fragonard (1732-1806), and the German architect Johann Balthasar Neumann (1687-1753). Rococo gave way to Neo-classicism. period. They allowed for the playful combination of rural views, ruins and imaginative or exotic clothing worn by the participants. Thematic interest took second place to the aesthetic concerns for a painterly, colourful surface and the mood or sensibility of the subject.
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