ARTH 2600 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Giovanni Battista Borra, Germain Boffrand, Matthew Brettingham
11 Feb 2018
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Week 2 (germain boffrand) salon de la princesse, hotel de soubise: paris, france, Rococo style becomes very fashionable esp. at versailles (shell). Nobility built paris homes to get away from strict rules of court. Town homes / hotels became nucleus of social life for ruling classes, from the intimate parties (salon) came social intercourse: favored wit, elegance, and luxury. Significant to how ideas circulated in society, but also aesthetically significant (artist could show their work and talk about it). Early form of an art exhibition. in different classes could discuss issues like political, intellectual and artistic issues). Residential townhome people not allowed into versailles could meet (people. Interior spaces began to show a particular ornament color scheme lightening: brunoleski(cid:495)s hospital: repeats design. (pastels), angles soften, mirrors become featured everywhere, and natural vegetal forms emerge. Large windows, chandeliers and lighting was also very important. Arabesque: linear surface decoration derived from foliage, calligraphic forms. Lush, green landscape, flower-garlanded statue of venus.
