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    Louis XVI style, also called Louis Seize, is a style of architecture, furniture, decoration and art which developed in France during the 19-year reign...
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    Louis XVI (Louis Auguste; French: [lwi sɛːz]; 23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793) was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the...
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    Louis XVI furniture is characterized by elegance and neoclassicism, a return to ancient Greek and Roman models. Much of it was designed and made for Queen...
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    centuries (the Louis XVI, Directoire and Louis Philippe), and who want to bring a new approach to these styles. The neo-Louis XVI style was really popular...
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    fashionable style in France had been the Directoire style, a more austere and minimalist form of Neoclassicism that replaced the Louis XVI style, and the...
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    Louis XVI, former King of France since the abolition of the monarchy, was publicly executed on 21 January 1793 during the French Revolution at the Place...
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    The Louis XV style or Louis Quinze (/ˌluːi ˈkæ̃z/, French: [lwi kɛ̃z]) is a style of architecture and decorative arts which appeared during the reign...
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    Hardouin-Mansart, 1678-1684 Rococo or Louis XVI style festoon ornament, 18th century, gilt bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art Louis XVI style Cupid seated on a festoon...
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    and applied decorative painting. It is a style transitional between Louis XVI and Empire. The Directoire style was primarily established by the architects...
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    Baroque (redirect from Baroque style)
    designers preferring the Louis XVI style. At the end of the interwar period, with the rise in popularity of the International Style, characterized by the...
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    from style to style, and how decorated or simple they were. Sometimes they were one of the key ornaments of a style, like the Louis XVI style of the...
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  • d’Orléans 1723–1774: Louis XV style (Louis Quinze) 1774–1793: Louis XVI style (Louis Seize) The terms are applied as style terms for the French forms of:...
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    Versailles, France Pair of Louis XVI style caryatid, 18th century, gilt bronze, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City Louis XVI style caryatids on the Médicis...
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    (1791) of furniture patterns exemplify this style. The Sheraton style was inspired by the Louis XVI style and features round tapered legs, fluting and...
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    Art Deco (redirect from Style 1925)
    craftsmanship of the furniture of the eras of Louis XVI and Louis Philippe I; and the exoticized styles of art from China, Japan, India, Persia, ancient...
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    development of this phase of neoclassical design is the French Louis XVI style. The Adam style moved away from the strict mathematical proportions previously...
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    finest extant examples of the Louis XV style and Louis XVI style at Versailles (Kimball, 1943). Beginning in 1678, Louis XIV began to modify these rooms...
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    interior was designed mainly by London and Paris based designers in the Louis XVI style. Marcus Binney describes the great suite of ground-floor rooms as "one...
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    artistic styles that flourished in the fields of literature, music, the visual arts and interior design. Biedermeier has influenced later styles. The Biedermeier...
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    names: Alegria art, big tech art, flat art, or corporate artstyle) is an art style named after the Memphis Group that features flat areas of color and geometric...
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  • stations, were constructed in the brutalist style. Architectural historian William Jordy says that although Louis Kahn was "[o]pposed to what he regarded...
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    46.4 × 68.6 × 51.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art Louis XVI style armchair (fauteuil) from Louis XVI's Salon des Jeux at Saint Cloud; 1788; carved and gilded...
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    Arabesque (redirect from Arabesque style)
    in Pompeian Styles, unknown designer and painter, 1780-1800, leather, gouache, ivory, and gilding, Musée Galliera, Paris Louis XVI style - The Boudoir...
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    interior style in France was initially a Parisian style, the "Goût grec" ("Greek style") not a court style. Only when the young King Louis XVI acceded...
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    The Louis XIII style or Louis Treize was a fashion in French art and architecture, especially affecting the visual and decorative arts. Its distinctness...
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    1760-1770, porcelain, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, US Louis XVI style armchair with a pair of cornucopia, by Georges Jacob, 1765, gilt wood...
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    Art Louis XVI style firedog with putti that warm themselves at a flame, 1780–1790, ormolu, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Louis XVI style candelabrum...
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    Empress occupied a suite of rooms just above his, highly decorated in Louis XVI style with a pink salon, a green salon and a blue salon. The court moved...
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    bedroom – This room exemplifies the Louis XVI style through furniture, woodwork and light fixtures, with Neoclassical style abounding in the interior. The...
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    Rococo (redirect from Rococo Style)
    arts décoratifs. Librarie Hacahette. Droguet, Anne (2004). Les Styles Transition et Louis XVI. Les Editions de l'Amateur. ISBN 2-85917-406-0. Duby, Georges;...
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