Rococo Art & Architecture

Word Bank
Antoine Watteau, Chardin, Fragonard, French Revolution, Gainsborough, Great Fire, Hogarth, Late Baroque, Louis XIV, Reynolds, Sir Christopher Wren, St. Pauls Cathedral, The Sun King, dome, romance

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2. English artist; rival to Reynolds; most famous painting is The Blue Boy.

3. Wren's best known work is ____________________. (3 Words)

4. English artist; he painted "Marriage a la Mode" - The Marriage Contract.

11. The isolation of the royal court from the reality of the people of France ultimately lead to the ________________. (2 Words)

13. Wren created a stir when he capped a church with a _____ instead of with a traditional English steeple.

14. French artist; he painted scenes of everyday life of ordinary people.

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1. He was England's greatest architect. (3 Words)

5. French artist; the greatest of the Rococo painters was ______________. (2 Words)

6. The Rococo period is also known as ______________. (2 Words)

7. English artist; famous for painting portraits of the English nobility - especially their children.

8. London was destroyed in the ___________ of 1666. (2 Words)

9. The Palace of Versailles was designed by and built for _______ in order to isolate the aristocracy from the day-to-day running of the French government. (2 Words)

10. Louis XIV is also known as ________________. (3 Words)

11. French artist; portrait painter to the French Royal Court; he died while eating ice cream.

12. The predominant thought during the Rococo period was on love & ______.

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