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Message:: [QUOTE="Darkwing Manor, post: 508210, member: 738"]I have not heard the term Baroque Revival used in the study of furniture styles. To paraphrase American furniture professor Oscar Fitzgerald, Baroque itself was a late 17th century reaction to the late Renaissance's  strict classicism, and turned to experimental lack of structure and relationships, an asymmetrical disharmony.  In furniture it appears as elaborate carvings, heavy turnings and a plastic, dynamic sense of movement. Rococo revival gives a nod to the French and King Louie styles, with cabriole legs, balloon-backs, serpentine seats, arched stretchers, lots of "S" and"C" scrolls, carved fruit and flowers on crests, and eventually ,with the advances of steam-bent wood, lamination and scroll saws, curved and elaborately pierced and carved frames. J.H. Belter's pieces sum up the apex of this over-embellishment. This and a glut of poorly designed and overly decorated machine mass-produced furniture were largely responsible for the reactionary Arts and Crafts Movement as a cry to return to simplicity of design and hand-made crafts. Photo- JH Belter sofa, 1850-60, courtesy of the Met Museum. [ATTACH=full]165408[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]