The artistic style known as the was seen as a sensuous variation on the preceding baroque style. it has been described as refined and fanciful, and was popularized in france around 1715.

The answer is: the Rococo style.

Explanation:

Rococo is an artistic style that emerged in France, and developed in Europe in the eighteenth century, right after the Baroque. It was lighter and more intimate than the previous style. Its characteristics were: the use of gold, curved shapes and decorative elements such as bows and flowers. Rococo art reflected the values of a futile society that sought in works of art something that would give it pleasure and make it forget its real problems. The themes used were erotic or gallant scenes of courtesan life and mythology, pastoral, allusions to the theater of the time, religious motifs and abundant naturalistic stylization of the plant world in ornamented frames.