The styles of decorative arts and the Royal Palace of Caserta - Index page
Learn to easily distinguish each style of Decorative Arts thanks to the Royal Palace of Caserta
Discover the history of Decorative Arts and antique objects from the Baroque to 1850
History of Decorative Art
The Baroque style in decorative arts
History
- The Baroque
- The late Baroque: the Rococo of
- Louis XV and the Queen Anne style
- The goldsmith
Style
- Similarities, differences and peculiarities
- Typical elements of the style / differences with the previous style
- The commessi in hard stone and scagliola
- The mirror, an allegory of luxury and bad luck
Objects
- Similarities, differences and peculiarities
- Typical elements of the style / differences with the previous style
- The birth of porcelain
- Neapolitan porcelain: Capodimonte
- The Neapolitan art of the tortoiseshell
- The coral
The Neoclassical style in decorative arts
History
- The Greek and Etruscan style
- Giovan Battista Piranesi
- The Giustiniani Manufacture
- The porcelain of the Royal Ferdinandea Factory
- Musical instruments
- The Beauty since Voltaire to Winchelmann
- Winchelmann, Pompeii and the Grand Tour
- Robert Adam and the Palladian style
- Luigi Vanvitelli, the Architect
- The Gustavian and Federal style
- The chinoiserie, the gothic, and the Georgian style
- Napoleon’s Empire style, and the Egyptian campaign
- The biedermeier
- Girolamo Segato: the “petrifier”
- The art of the nativity scene
Style
- Similarities, differences and peculiarities
- Typical elements of the style / differences with the previous style
Objects
- Similarities, differences and peculiarities
- Typical elements of the style / differences with the previous style
- The Ferdinandea porcelain
Compare an object
- Andirons for the fireplace
- Armchairs
- Bathtub
- Beds
- Billiards
- Candlesticks
- Chairs
- Chandeliers
- Clocks
- Console
- Desk
- Fireplaces
- Furniture
- Mirrors
- Shelves
- Sofas
- Stools
- Tables
- Vases
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