Style Louis XVI
One calls style Louis XVI a style of architecture and furniture employed initially in France, of 1760 to approximately 1790 (the reign of Louis XVI extends as for him from 1774 to 1792). The style Louis XVI falls under a European movement of return to the classicism in second half of the XVIIIe century.
Preceding or preexistent styles
THE STYLE TRANSITION (1760-1770) IS THE STYLE WHICH WILL ALLOW THE PASSAGE BETWEEN THE EXUBERANT SHAPES OF THE LOUIS XV TOWARDS THE SYMMETRICAL AND RIGHT SHAPES OF THE LOUIS XVI
Political situation and cultural
Esthetics
The style Louis XVI is in opposition to the style which preceded it, namely the style Louis XV. It rejects the forms rubbles of the style Louis XV which turn to the research of the pleasure, of imagination, contrary to the rigor of the geometrical forms of the style Louis XVI. Change consolidated by the redécouverte of vestiges of antiquity: Herculanum and Pompéï (two cities close to Naples absorbed by the volcanic eruption of Vesuvius).
Furniture
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