The Baroque style was succeeded in the 18th century by the Rococo, which brought new levels of novelty and lyricism.

• design became lighter and more graceful
• pale colors

Intarsia marble flooring

• Intarsia is a form of wood inlaying that is similar to marquetry. The term is also used for a similar technique used with small, highly polished stones set in a marble matrix

Savonarola

• The chair in the illustration consists of a wooden flat-arched back rail carved with a coat-of-arms in low relief, and connected to the back of the straight arms of the chair and a seat made of narrowly-fitted wooden slats. The wood used in construction of the chair is the typical walnut, as in other gothic and renaissance furniture.

Amorini

Putto

Cherub

Baldacchino

• is a large Baroque sculpted bronze canopy, technically called a ciborium or baldachin, over the high altar of Saint Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City, Rome, which is at the centre of the crossing and directly under the dome. Designed by the sculptor and architect Gian Lorenzo Bernini, it was intended to mark, in a monumental way, the place of Saint Peter's tomb underneath.

Cartouche

Cassapanca

• back and arms added to a Cassonne

La Rotunda by Andrea Palladio

• The design is for a completely symmetrical building having a square plan with four facades, each of which has a projecting portico.

• Palazzo is more broadly used in Italian than the English word “palace”. In Italy, a palazzo is a grand building of some architectural ambition that is the headquarters of a family of some renown or of an institution, or even what is called in English a “block of flats” or a tenement in multiple occupancy.

• Palladio's work was strongly based on the symmetry, perspective and values of the formal classical temple architecture of the Ancient Greeks and Romans.
• From the 17th century Palladio's interpretation of this classical architecture was adapted as the style known as Palladianism.

• Parquetry is a geometric mosaic of wood pieces used for decorative effect.
• The two main uses of parquetry are as veneer patterns on furniture and block patterns for flooring. Parquet patterns are entirely geometrical and angular—squares, triangles, lozenges.
• The most popular parquet flooring pattern is herringbone.

Sedia

• decorative stretcher
• runner
• rectangular overall

Sgabello

• stool w/ back

St. Peters Basilica

• Late Renaissance church located within Vatican City.
• Saint Peter's Basilica has the largest interior of any Christian church in the world.

A stretcher is a horizontal support element of a table, chair or other item of furniture; this structure is normally made of exposed wood and ties vertical elements of the piece together. There are numerous styles of the stretcher including circumferential, double and spindle design.

Villa Capra "La Rotunda" near Vicenza

designed by Andrea Palladio

The name La Rotonda refers to the central circular hall with its dome. To describe the villa, as a whole, as a 'rotonda' is technically incorrect, as the building is not circular but rather the intersection of a square with a cross.

• Durante degli Alighieri, mononymously referred to as Dante was an Italian poet, prose writer, literary theorist, moral philosopher, and political thinker.

• He is best known for the monumental epic poem La commedia, later named La divina commedia (The Divine Comedy).
• His Divine Comedy, originally called Commedia and later called Divina by Boccaccio, is considered the greatest literary work composed in the Italian language and a masterpiece of world literature.

a political dynasty, banking family and later royal house that first began to gather prominence under Cosimo de' Medici in the Republic of Florence during the late 14th century.

The family originated in the Mugello region of the Tuscan countryside, gradually rising until they were able to found the Medici Bank.

A technique for imitating marble developed in Italy in the 17th c.

It consists mainly of plaster into which are embedded fine chips of marble and other minerals, especially in crystalline form of gypsum called selenite.

Drayton Hall

Charleston, Va

in the style of Palladio

• Medici of Florence
• Pitti and Strozzi of Florence
• Sforza and Visconti of Milan
• Borgia and Borghese of Rome
• Foscari and Vendramini of Venice

Palazzo Farnese

• High Renaissance palace for the Farnese family