This work offers an account of the forms and functions of interior decoration in Parisian domestic architecture during the first half of the 18th century - the period generally known as the rococo. It charts the rapid and sometimes dramatic changes in both the style and the imagery of the art of that time, and explores the relationship between social status and the consumption and display of decoration in public and private interiors.
Language
English
Pages
342
Format
Hardcover
Publisher
Yale University Press
Release
January 24, 1996
ISBN
0300045824
ISBN 13
9780300045826
The Rococo Interior: Decoration And Social Spaces In Early Eighteenth Century Paris
This work offers an account of the forms and functions of interior decoration in Parisian domestic architecture during the first half of the 18th century - the period generally known as the rococo. It charts the rapid and sometimes dramatic changes in both the style and the imagery of the art of that time, and explores the relationship between social status and the consumption and display of decoration in public and private interiors.