1) Art movement 2) Baroque art 3) Baroque music 4) Baroque style 5) Beyond merely ornate 6) Elaborate architectural style 7) Elaborate style 8) Elaborately ornamental 9) English rock music group 10) Excessively ornate 11) Extravagant style 12) Fancy 13) Florid 14) Florid and tasteless 15) Florid architectural style
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1) Arty 2) Fancy 3) Florid 4) Ornate
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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.
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A development of Baroque, it was frivolous but elegant with elaborate and superficial decoration
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• (n.) A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century. • (a.) Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
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Chinese and Indian motifs are also common. Delicate carving emphasises the curving lines of furniture, and frames are swirling and elegant. The name 'Rococo' is derived from the French words rocaille (rockwork) and coquillage (shellwork). The style reached its peak in Britain c. 1740s and 50s, and was revived again in Britain and the USA in the ear...
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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.
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Movement in the arts and architecture in 18th-century Europe, particularly in France, that tended towards lightness, elegance, delicacy, and decorative charm. The term `rococo` is derived from...
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a decorative style of art and architecture often characterised by 'shell-shapes', became the final, and most flamboyant, phase of the baroque.
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From the French rocaille meaning "rock work." This late Baroque (c. 1715-1775) style used in interior decoration and painting was characteristically playful, pretty, romantic, and visually loose or soft; it used small scale and ornate decoration, pastel colors, and asymmetrical arrangement of curves. Rococo was popular in France and southern German...
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An eighteenth-century European style, originating in France. In reaction to the grandeur and massiveness of the baroque, rococo employed refined, elegant, highly decorative forms. Fragonard worked in this style.
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European decorative style, a development of baroque, in the 1730s. Rococo is characterised by curving, asymmetrical motifs based on rock, shell, floral, leaf and other natural shapes. Chinese and Indian motifs are also common. Delicate carving emphasises the curving lines of furniture, and frames are swirling and elegant. The name 'Rococo' is deriv …...
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Ro·co'co adjective Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
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Ro·co'co noun [ F.; of uncertain etymology.] A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
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A style of art popular in Europe in the first three quarters of the 18th century, Rococo architecture and furnishings emphasized ornate but small-scale decoration, curvilinear forms, and pastel colors. Rococo painting has a playful, light-hearted romantic quality and often pictures the aristocracy at leisure.
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exuberant naturalistic style of decoration fashionable in the early 18th century. Associated with the work of Paul de Lamerie.
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Rococo is a style of decoration which originated in France and Italy in the 17th century. It is a debased variety of the Louis-Quatorze style of ornament, preceding from it through the degeneracy of the Louis-Quinze. Rococo is generally a meaningless assemblage of scrolls and crimped conventional shell-work, wrought into all sorts of irregular and ...
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Carvings of poor and meaningless design.
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Light, sensuous, intensely decorative French style developed early eighteenth century following death of Louis XIV and in reaction to the Baroque grandeur of Versailles. Name comes from French rocaille, rock-work, based on forms of sea shells and corals. In practice style of short curves, scrolls and counter curves, often elaborated with fantasy. I...
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adjective having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; `an exquisite gilded rococo mirror`
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Probably derived from the French 'rocaille' (pebble work) and certainly French in inspiration, probably due to the influence of Huguenot craftsmen. The rococo style consisted of motifs of shells, seaweed, corals, mermaids, shellfish and other marine themes in asymmetrical display combined with scrolls and double curves. It was in fashion between c....
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(art) Movement in the arts and architecture in 18th-century Europe, particularly in France, that tended towards lightness, elegance, delicacy, and decorative charm. The term `rococo` is derived from the French
rocaille (rock- or shell-work), a soft styl...
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A musical style characterized as excessive, ornamental, and trivial.
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having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation
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[Intelligent words] having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation
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