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Article: A Cupid's head with wings. (Rococo style)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- August 1, 1993
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ROCOCO started as a style of interior design. According to Henri-Russell Hitchcock, in his book, Rococo Architecture in Southern Germany, it began when Louis XIV's chief architect, J. H. Mansart, required his dessinateur, Henri Lepautre, to create 'a novel sort of decoration' for Versailles. This happened in 1700, and as the style became popular, first in France and then, by the time of Lepautre's death in 1743, in Switzerland and Southern Germany.
The popularity of the style in Bavaria had to do, at least in part, with the speed with which effects in stucco, the predominant material, could be produced. The Bavarians had from early medieval times been ...