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The Rococo: What is it?

The Rococo is naturally considered one of the most misunderstood periods of history; its
attempt at classicism dismissed as being 'unimportant' and 'disorderly' along with being 'overindulgent' and therefore, completely regressive of the actual intent of classicism
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However, the term "Rococo" has been challenged by some as being
overly-generalising term of an artistic movement that contains both Classicism and the
Baroque
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Factors of the Rococo include the following:
• Delicacy vs
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2 The Italians flocked to Paris for the opportunity to take the fragments of the
Baroque from the Renaissance with them as Italy had moved forward with their research and
the academia of Paris was moving towards a style more known to decadence and delicacy
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The Italian culture of art had no artistic centre by the 1860s and thus,
only had Rome as a means of communicating with the European culture of old Classicism,
which was quickly fading
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This was due to the amount of art dealers in Paris compared to Italy
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This, in turn, caused a migration of Italians to
Paris4 and it became a custom for paint to be dealt and sold like any other thing in the
marketplace
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(1999)
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AA Files
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10-20
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5-14
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Igra, C
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Reviving the Rococo: Enterprising Italian Artists in Second Empire Paris
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28 (3), pp
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Etro, Federico; Stepanova, Elena ;8300 defect for UNSW Kyklos, 2015, Vol
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28-51

As for the Rococo and its connection to literature; the period itself takes place at the end of
the 18th Century and thus, European Literature is again, at the forefront with France and
Russia making great contributions
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William Park argues that the era itself [in terms of
literature] can be explained and depicted with this passage from Don Quixote:
"Here he sees a brook whose limpid waters, like liquid crystal, ripple over fine sands
and white pebbles that look like sifted gold and purest pearls
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(Don Quixote, Part I, Chapter 50) 6
The way in which this can be done is through the description
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Here, we have that more domestic-styled image reflected on to the
outdoors, the extravagancy of nature coming through in an obvious oriental fashion
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Other texts Park argues for is
Tom Jones and The Princess of Cleves that serve as the basis for our understandings of the
Rococo having men like Voltaire and Goethe at its core in literature and Jacques-Louis David
at its core for art
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Apart from the French, the Russians were also interested in the aims and intentions of the
Baroque and Rococo, projecting their own era between the late 18th and early 19th centuries
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The metaphysical poetry being kept
alive by poems such as On the Death of the Prince7 and thus, continued a tradition in Europe
that had been a big part of the 17th and 18th Centuries
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In conclusion, the Rococo is pretty much undefinable as there are so many different portrayals
of its delicacy, its extravagancy, its religion and its immorality
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Park, W
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19, No
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125-136
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Cervantes, M
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Don Quixote
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UK: Vintage Publishing
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Canadian
Slavonic Papers / Revue Canadienne des Slavistes, Vol
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4 (Winter, 1973), pp

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