The Régence style has no valid existence but is a convenient classification for furniture still retaining certain features of the Louis XIV style and already displaying some that belong to the Louis XV style. Historically the Régence covers that period of time from 1715 to 1723 when Philippe d’Orléans was appointed regent for Louis XV. In cabinetwork, however, the Régence roughly extended from about 1700 to 1720. Régence cabinetwork possessed the nobility and symmetry proper to the Louis XIV style, but those singular qualities of greatness and formal grandeur were gone, and in their place were signs of the supple gracefulness so typical of the Louis XV style. In a word, during the Régence a new spirit, which was to be the spirit of the eighteenth century, the century of gallant amenities, began to transform the arts from the stately and heroic to the amiable and gallant.
The Régence style has no valid existence but is a convenient classification for furniture still retaining certain features of the Louis XIV style and already displaying some that belong to the Louis XV style. Historically the Régence covers that period of time from 1715 to 1723 when Philippe d’Orléans was appointed regent for Louis XV. In cabinetwork, however, the Régence roughly extended from about 1700 to 1720. Régence cabinetwork possessed the nobility and symmetry proper to the Louis XIV style, but those singular qualities of greatness and formal grandeur were gone, and in their place were signs of the supple gracefulness so typical of the Louis XV style. In a word, during the Régence a new spirit, which was to be the spirit of the eighteenth century, the century of gallant amenities, began to transform the arts from the stately and heroic to the amiable and gallant.
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