Rococo Style
Rococo Style, style of 18th-century painting and decoration characterized by lightness, delicacy, and elaborate ornamentation. The rococo period corresponded roughly to the reign (1715-74) of King Louis XV of France.
Rococo
1715-1775
Some historians argue that the Rococo is a style, but others claim that the Rococo is not a style in its own right, like the Baroque, but the last phase of the Baroque.
rococo - having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"
fancy - not plain; decorative or ornamented; "fancy handwriting"; "fancy clothes"
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Rococo architecture is actually late version of the Baroque style, and is most often found in Germany, Austria, Eastern Europe, and Russia.
Rococo
Late Baroque era buildings were whimsical, playful, full of fantasy, and more lighthearted that the typical Baroque buildings.
Rococo
the latest (18th-century) phase of Baroque, especially in Northern Europe, ...
Rococo: late Baroque phase, highly ornate; usually refers to interior decoration.
Romanesque: in English architecture, the same as Norman, characterised by thick walls, round arches and small windows without tracery.
Rococo - a style of architecture and decoration, primarily French in origin, which represents the final phase of the Baroque around the middle of the 18th century; characterized by profuse, ...
rococo : A style originating in France c. 1720, developed out of Baroque types, and characterized by its ornamentation of shellwork, foliage, etc., and its refined use of different materials, such as stucco, metal, or wood for a delicate effect.
Rococo
Period in French design originating in the 18th century after Baroque. It was asymetrical and tended to be over-ornamented. Name is derived from the French words rocaille and coquille rock and shell, prominent motifs in this decoration.
Rococo
An artistic and architectural style typified by light and highly elaborate detail; a light, frothy flourish towards the end of the Baroque period.
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5 Rococo Architecture
The death of Louis XIV in 1715 coincided with changes in the artistic climate which led to the exuberant Rococo style. Once again the work of Italians-notably Guarini and Filippo Juvarra-provided the basis for a new thrust.
Rococo
- a decorative style of art and architecture often characterised by "shell-shapes", became the final, and most flamboyant, phase of the baroque.
Rococo : A style originating in France, but utilized primarily in English and Italian cathedrals of the early 1700s, as well as in renovations of the period. Distinctively lighter in expression with an emphasis on smaller, more graceful motifs.
There is an anti-Rococo strain that can be detected in some European architecture of the earlier 18th century, most vividly represented in the Palladian architecture of Georgian Britain and Ireland, ...
Originally a jewelers term applied to a rough pearl, now applied to a vigorous, exuberant style - grotesque, extravagant, whimsical - in vogue from the mid 16th to the late 18th century: sometimes used as equivalent to rococo.
Rocaille(French): Asymmetrical arrangements of unworked rocks, or its imitation in other materials, associated especially with the Rococo style; also called rockwork.Rock-facedMasonry cleft to produce a natural, rugged appearance.
As Baroque architecture, and the subsidiary style defined as Rococo, drew to a close by the late 18th century, ...
In Germany and the Netherlands in the 17th and 18th centuries the step gables assume very elaborate forms of an extremely rococo character, and they are sometimes of immense size, with windows in two or three storeys.
enfilade Connecting suites of rooms aligned along a single axis, an arrangement popular in Rococo architecture. Examples: Versailles, Sans Souci ...
In architecture it saw the rise of Palladianism; the styles of Robert Adam; the fashions for Rococo, Chinoiserie, Gothick and Hindoo. It also embraced early Gothic and Greek revivals and Neoclassicism.
In 1789 Selim III became sultan and instituted a series of apartments or salons in the French Rococo style. These buildings had large European glazed windows and were decorated in ornate painted plasterwork.
Dentil blocks run along the base of the cornice. The agraffe has fish scales similar to those on the upper spandrel. The top ornaments are cockle shells, a Rococo flourish, with ornate volutes around a stylized acanthus.
rococo artistic style of the early eighteenth century characterized by energy, lightness, delicacy, playfulness, and self-conscious artificiality; it was replaced by a more stern neoclassicism. rotunda a circular, domed building or hall.
 See also: Architecture, Baroque, Ornament, House, Roman
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