As I was getting my first couple of posts together I was running around
Pinterest, where I am always guaranteed to get sidetracked, and came
across this picture of The Venus Grotto (top right), and got sucked in
to the Rococo magic that is Linderhof Palace and decided to post these
instead.
Despite being the smallest of the three palaces
built by King Ludwig II of Bavaria and being able to fit into Versailles
(where clearly Ludwig drew his inspiration from) probably a billion
times, it is certainly not lacking in incredible, elaborate detail. The
Venus Grotto is actually entirely artificial and was built for the king
as an illustration of the First Act of Wagner’s “Tannhäuser”.
There are also 2 identical “Tapestry Chambers” that served absolutely
no function, but still had equally as much work put into them (one is
pictured bottom right). That bedroom though… I had seen pictures of this
amazing creation before on a much smaller scale with filters that
really took away from all of the details and then I found these and it
took me a while to process all of it. The Rococo artistic movement was
something else.
Rococo is a style of architecture and
decorative arts that evolved from the Baroque style in the mid-18th
century distinguished by its curved asymmetrical forms and elaborate
ornamentation. Lots of foliage. very frivolous, very Louis XV, very
modish.
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