Artistic movement of France during the end of the reign on Louis XIV and took hold during the reign of Louis XV This style was mostly adapted to interiors Paintings in the rococo style dominated glossy colors and mellow tones, representing mischievous and frivolous themes The style preferred rare and precious materials including Chinese lacquer and porcelain Rococo is a fragile, pastel and dainty version of the baroque style
Final phase of Baroque style, involving light and often naturalistic ornamentation
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
a delicate, light-hearted and elegant style based on asymmetrical natural forms An 18th Century style of art and decoration with a concern for the trivial rather than the significant; colorful and capricious, closely linked historically with the fashionable reign of Louis XV of France; the style was in reaction against the oppressive formality of French classical baroque Artists include: Watteau, Boucher, Fragonard, and Tiepolo
(English) A style of artistic production that flourished in Europe in the first half of the 18th century Often linked to the regency and court of Louis XV in France, the term now evokes a style that featured pale colors, asymmetric and curving forms, dainty figures, and fantastic, hybrid compositions in painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts
An 18th Century European style noted for ornate and asymmetrical decoration based on natural forms including flowers, fruit, leaves, shells, and rocks (rocaille) from which its name is derived Associated with Louis XV
A very elaborate style of European design originating in France during the early 1700's
having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror"
A word used to describe an elaborate, fantastic style of decoration fashionable in 18th century France, and popular in England in the mid-18th century Motifs included flowers, leaves, shells, scrolls and florid curves, such as those on the decorative friezes of console and pier tables, mirrors, etc
C'est du rococo It is mere twaddle; Brummagem finery; make-believe (Italian roco, uncouth )
(1650 - 1790) Rococo (During the Enlightenment; 1715-1791) is a simpler style; a frame with some foliage and a few figures It was a style of art that flourished in western Europe from about 1700 to 1780 The term comes from a French word for a fanciful rock or shell design It implies a refined, elegant feeling and style
fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation; "an exquisite gilded rococo mirror
- the last, less colorful but more figurative, phase of the Baroque period, from about 1735-1770; see periods