Baroque vs. Rococo...FITE!

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Who would win? Is rococo just too much? Is baroque too austere? Powder your wigs and weigh in.

Rococo
Essentially, it is in the same kind of art and decoration as flourished in France during the regency following Louis XIV's death, and remained in fashion for about forty years (1715-50). It might be termed the climax or degeneration of the Baroque, which, coupled with French grace, began towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV to convert grotesques into curves, lines, and bands (Jean Bérain, 1638-1711). http://www.taniavartan.com/rococo.jpg

Baroque
To a race grown effeminate to the Baroque forms seemed too coarse and heavy, the lines too straight and stiff, and whole impression to weighty and forced. http://www.travelwriter.at/a_pic/fotos/schloss-mannheim.jpg

― Skottie, Monday, 27 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Feh! Feh! Girly French architecture! bring me my GOTHICK!!! Bring me my MUSCULAR GOTHICK!!!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Though if I had to pick, probably Baroque. Less frou-frou!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

gargoyles and vaults and pointed domes is what me likes

― kephm, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Dammit, I thought I posted an example of high muscular gothic to this thread, but it didn't turn up. :-(

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Muscles....

http://www.alltravelaustria.com/images/a_schonbrunn.jpg

― Skottie, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Too orderly, too Palladian, too neoclassical. No no no no no.

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

nothing's more Frenchified than high gothi(c)k!

http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~jmgriggs/photo/chapelle.jpg

― Skottie, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:29 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, but High Gothic frou-frou is muscular and scary and awe-inspiring as well as complex and delicate. Roccoco and Baroque's frou-frou just MINCES and you know how I feel about mincing!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-two years ago)

No mincing! Do you hear me people! No mincing!

http://www.alikhantalent.com/images/drag/drag1.jpg

― Skottie, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.giotto.org/jesse/gruber02.jpg

― kephm, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Kephm on the mon... architectural plans!

― kate (kate), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Ursprung of gothic architecture...
http://www.filmsf.com/films/photos/alien_anim.gif
http://www.heycomputer.com/images/bruce/brucea.jpg

(okay, not really from Alien, but same difference)

― Skottie, Monday, 27 October 2003 16:56 (twenty-two years ago)

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