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Highlight: Distinguishing between Baroque and Rococo Baroque Georges de La Tour. Magdalene with the Smoking Flame Quite to the opposite of the Rococo soul, the soul of the Baroque is characterized by austerity that inspires silence and meditation. By the same token, it is the aesthetic nature of the Baroque to underscore the basic lines and points of the message being conveyed. To visualize ...

Tour: 18th-Century France -- The Rococo and Watteau Overview back to gallery In 1715 the French greeted a new king for the first time in seventy-two years. Louis XV, a boy only five years old, succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV, the Sun King, who had made France the preeminent power in Europe. For the next eight years the late king's nephew, the duc d'Orleans, governed as regent. His ...