how was rococo a departure from the earlier baroque style?

Though Rococo emerged from Baroque art, Rococo artists turned away from Baroque's dramatic symbolism of the church's power. Instead, they honed in on elegantly elevating the power and class of French aristocrats. Rococo represented “secular high fashion.”

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social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons' moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live