From Fragonard and Watteau to the Veil-Picard collection, today’s selective auction fervor for the 18th-century style reveals ...

When Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s last mistress, pleaded for “just a little moment more” before her execution in 1793, in the throes of the French Revolution, she seemed to capture the fleeting ...

In one of our favorite episodes to date, we look at a burgeoning trend in the art world. Michaela Yearwood-Dan, A conduit for joy (2021). ©Michaela Yearwood-Dan. Image courtesy Marianne Boesky Gallery ...

In celebration of its 75th anniversary, the National Museum in Wrocław, southwestern Poland, has put on a grand exhibition called “Rococo Madness" to trace the fascination with late Baroque art in ...

View A pair of German Rococo Revival seven-light silver candelabra, scrolling branches centering a taller spiral fluted, curved baluster stem, circular-lobed and domed-profiled base, overall cast and ...

Doomed to be thrust from power by the onrushing forces of history, the aristocracy of 18th century Europe elected to live out its autumn in a sort of perpetual costume party. It was an age of ...