Art on Film Database
Title: ROYAL ROCOCO
- Alternate Title
- ROCOCO AT BRUHL CASTLE
- Original Title
- FURSTLICHES ROKOKO: SCHLOSS BRUHL
- Data
- 13 min. col. 35mm; 16mm; video 1965 Federal Republic of
Germany Nonverbal
- Producing Agency
- Euphono Film
- Museum Prod'n
- No
- Collection
- MMA
- Director
- Carl Lamb
- Source (US)
- The Roland Collection, 22-D Hollywood Ave., Ho Ho Kus, NJ
07423. Phone: 201-251-8200. Fax: 201-251-8788.
- Intl. Source
- Curzon Publicity Ltd., 31 St. James's Place, London, SW1 Great
Britain.
- Intl. Source
- Anthony Roland Films, Tillingham, Peasmarsh, Near Rye, E.
Sussex, TN316XJ Great Britain. Phone: 44.797.230.421. Fax:
44.797.230.677.
- Availability
- General
- Synopsis
- Visits Schloss Brühl, an exquisite rococo eighteenth-century
palace in Brühl, Germany. The summer palace, near Munich, was
rebuilt for the elector of Bavaria from 1729 to 1737 by German
architect Johann Conrad Schlau (1695-1773 and decorated,
particularly its famed Yellow Apartment, in 1762 by Belgian
architect Robert Cuvilles (1695-1768). The music of Handel,
Mozart, and other composers of the period accompanies the tour
of the architecture, interiors, and gardens--all in harmonious
accord. No narration.
- Genre
- Visual Essay
- Artist on Camera
- No
- Audience
- General
- Suggested Use
- General Information
- Subject Heading
- Architecture -- Rococo; Palaces -- Europe -- Federal Republic
of Germany -- 18C 1720D 1730D
- Personal Name
- Cuvilles, Robert (1695-1768), Belgian architect
- Awards
- German Center for Film Classification Highly Commended
- Comments
- Very well filmed. Useful for study of the period. (Staff)