Rococo and Neoclassicism: Art and Society (18th-19th Century)

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From the mid-eighteenth century until the last third of the nineteenth, society was radically transformed, a period of profound change initiated by the French Revolution.

Liberalism and nationalism became dominant ideologies, giving rise to the so-called bourgeois revolutions. From the mid-nineteenth century, and due to the rise of the new working class, Marxism gained great importance.

The eighteenth century was complex in terms of the diversity of artistic styles produced.

Rococo

In the early eighteenth

Art, Music, and Intellectual History: Renaissance to Modernity

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Catholic Reformation (Counter-Reformation)

The Church undertook this program of internal reform and reorganization. In an effort to win back to Catholicism those who had strayed to Protestantism, the Church launched the evangelical campaign known as the Counter-Reformation. These two interdependent movements introduced a more militant Catholicism.

Jesuits

Also known as the Society of Jesus, it was founded by Ignatius Loyola. His followers called for a militant return to fundamental Catholic dogma and