Art Bites 169: Rococo Art and Architecture, Baroque Gone Wild
About the Episode
Across Europe, eye-popping Rococo art featured aristocrats playing in their palaces and picnicking in their bucolic backyards: pleasure gardens that stretched to the horizon…as if their divine-right world would go on forever.
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Extras
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Art Bites 136: Relics and Reliquaries
Holy relics were contained in dazzling jeweled vessels called reliquaries.2:00 -
Art Bites 135: Sculpture, Pulpits, Altarpieces, and Relics
The greatest art of the Middle Ages was Gothic church art.7:08 -
Art Bites 134: Gothic Stained Glass: Sainte-Chapelle, Chartres, and York’s Minster
We’ll visit three great Gothic churches filled with 800-year-old stained-glass windows.3:21 -
Art Bites 133: Super-sized Art and Architecture of Ancient Rome
In ancient Rome, grand statues and imposing buildings were built with cheap or free labor.3:19 -
Art Bites 132: Caesar and the Pax Romana
Rome’s Altar of Peace and the Trophy of the Alps are fine examples of art as propaganda.3:52 -
Art Bites 131: Carving Marble: Visiting a Sculptor’s Studio
We’ll visit the studio of a modern-day marble sculptor in Florence.1:18 -
Art Bites 130: Ancient Rome’s Respect for Greek Art and Architecture
The impact Greece had on Rome can be seen clearly in Roman art and architecture.3:58 -
Art Bites 129: Ancient Roman Roads, Theaters, Arenas, and Aqueducts
Much of the “art and architecture” of ancient Rome could be found in its infrastructure.5:02 -
Art Bites 128: The Ancient Roman Forum
A local guide brings the Roman Forum to life with her vivid description.5:21 -
Art Bites 127: Ancient Rome’s Etruscan Roots
What we know about the Etruscan civilization, we learned from art found in its tombs.3:23
