How To Use Rococo In A Sentence

The English were among the first to revive the "Louis XIV style" as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.
Old colophons on school books sport two sorts of logo: oblong whorls, rococo scrolls - both in worn morocco.
The armchair's densely carved scallops and shellwork, rosebuds, floral bouquets, and cartouche-shaped back are loosely based on the rococo style as reinterpreted in French pattern books of the mid-nineteenth century.
In a caravan of unmarked coaches they went to La Fillon’s hôtel particulier, which was done up in the modern taste—rococo, mirrors, pastel colors, much white and gold, with rounded commodes by Charles Cressent, encrusted with gilt bronze. THE DIAMOND
The front legs of rococo chairs were undulating symphonies of curves and counter-curves.

Two multi-colored gold and mother-of-pearl rococo nécessaires, each fitted with gold sewing implements in the rim and in a gold-mounted mother-of-pearl tray, the cover of one featuring a courting couple, of the other, a pastoral couple.
She was like a figure from a rococo fresco, an eighteenth-century nymph. IN LOVE AND WAR
Maria sat bolt upright on a pretty rococo chair, watching the dancing couples.
Revere enhanced the coat of arms with an asymmetrical cartouche, a curling trompe l' oeil motto scroll, and plants - all rococo devices.
“Platonic love,” which by philosophers and poets of the Renaissance was understood in a pro - foundly mystical sense, was castigated by the enlight - ened authors of the rococo as the naive enthusiasm of immature adolescents. Dictionary of the History of Ideas
Barney's art has a kind of rococo artificiality - he loves powders and pastels - that's theatrical rather than false.
This rare early Philadelphia needlework was included in the important exhibition entitled American Rococo, first held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City in 1992.
I doubt I have ever read a novel with so many extravagantly nonsensical similes and rococo metaphors.
The lounges and dining rooms are immensely pretty, with parquet floors, pastel walls, white stucco decorative mouldings and painted rococo ceilings in the Tiepolo style.
Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
The massive and elaborately gilded furniture and furnishings of the late baroque were so entrenched in Italy, that rococo took longer to establish itself there than in France, southern Germany or even England.
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
Using a soft brush attachment she slowly cleans the ornate, rococo gilt frame surrounding a magnificent portrait by George Romney.
Why the rococo is unfavoured on our catwalk is perhaps easier to understand. Times, Sunday Times
The heads of the typically rococo putti appear on the handle and at the tops of the legs, which scroll out to bold shell feet.
These furnishings included carpets, curtains, louvres, rococo chairs, plaster casts of antique statues and busts, paintings, Chinese vases and diverse plants.
The Rococo style, characterized by lavish ornamentation, organic forms and the use of gilding, grew to its height in 18th century France.
Enlightenment, to realism, though on occasion it has affinities with what could be called rococo in its artistic style. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
So the style becomes more rotund, more rococo, more elaborate.
One version of the history of French art between the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 and the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852 goes something like this: Just as the French Revolution deposed the irresponsible ancienne régime, Neo-Classical images of high-minded heroes replaced Rococo confections of frivolous aristocrats pursuing love in flowery settings. Drawn to Revolution
Call it "rococo," call it "baroque" in its passion for ornamentation and its uninhibited excess. Peter Clothier: Miriam Wosk 1947 - 2010: A Tribute by Peter Clothier
A large bulk of the city's inhabitants still spend their afternoon chinwagging over coffee and cake cocooned in an atmosphere of rococo exuberance.
Clothing patterns became very elaborate as did hats and by the Baroque and Rococo eras hats and hairpieces were monumental in stature and elaborateness. When Were Women’s Hats in Fashion? « Colleen Anderson
Why the rococo is unfavoured on our catwalk is perhaps easier to understand. Times, Sunday Times
Many rococo revival etageres were made from imported rosewood because the beautiful grain patterns followed the lines of carved decoration.
Its rococo entranceway was lined with larger-than-life busts of his children, which had been painted in life-like colors.
We chose Chippendale's rococo units with elegant blue-grey door detailing and Formica worksurfaces.
Crowned with a tile roof, the alternating narrow and wide bands of rock face masonry contrast with the smooth finish of the arch and its Rococo embellishment.
An egregious example of this tendency is the architect whose assembly-line production of faux rococo and ersatz neo-classical facades has transmogrified Mumbai's cityscape.
Worthy of admiration, too, are several old plateresque rococo altarpieces. The Oaxaca Valley: a week's adventures in a single day...
Lessing, Wieland, Herder, Goethe, and Schiller (Wil - helm Münch, “Über den Begriff des Klassikers” in Zum deutschen Kultur - und Bildungsleben, Berlin [1912]), an extremely heterogeneous group of which Klopstock today would appear to belong to what is usually called sentimentalism; Lessing, in spite of his polemics against the practices of French tragedy, is a ration - alistic classicist who worshipped Aristotle; Wieland is rather a man of the Enlightenment whose art strikes us often as rococo; Herder would seem an irrationalistic preromantic. CLASSICISM IN LITERATURE
In his late style the backgrounds are light, the register of colour is greatly heightened, and the emphasis is on the decorative design of swirling Rococo arabesques of flowers and foliage.
At other times it was rococo mirrors. Times, Sunday Times
While in the capital, Millet had catered to the desires of an urban clientele in order to feed and house his growing illegitimate family by painting luscious neo-Rococo nudes and pastorals.
The stitch between these groups is generally known as the rococo stitch. Encyclopedia of Needlework
Except -- now I see the lyrics written down, I realize I always thought one bit said 'rococo' and it actually says 'cope cope cope', which gives a very different feel! Good lord! a music meme
In the applied arts, which were the style's first and most characteristic manifestation, Rococo designers were concerned with colourfully fragile decoration, supple curves, anti-architectonic forms, and spirited elegance.
The Gustavian style - a reaction against fussy rococo interiors - originated in 1770s Sweden and is still popular.
The palace and front garden are in unattractive "rococo" style, especially the rooms occupied by Frederick the Great; but the gardens in the rear of the palace are large and most attractive. In and Around Berlin
I sat at your table, he reminded the actress, who looked a little put out when he approached her as she fended off admirers in the predictably rococo drawing room of the French Embassy, where the most discriminating after-party was under way. O: A Presidential Novel
In the Svindersvik manor, the characteristics of Swedish rococo were boiled down to their essence and even enhanced by its minute size.
The furniture detailed in the small book is considered by connoisseurs to be the highest expression of baroque form and rococo ornament.
Consequently, Cuban furniture made during this period was quickly given foreign forms and styles such as the Queen Anne style, as well as French and Dutch baroque and rococo elements.
The coat of arms with its elaborate rococo style mantling has almost no identifiable Chinese precedent.
Courtesy of S.J. Phillips Ltd Rococo gold-mounted bloodstone teapot, circa 1820, probably Germany. The Art World's Yearly Pilgrimage
Such equipages m the rococo taste of the middle decades of the eighteenth century were meant to entice avaricious consumers of means with their mixture of scrollwork, exoticism, and fancy.
He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner.
She had a passion for Italian rococo.
Autumn, or Bacchus's Trickery of Erigone is one of a pair of oddly shaped canvases, perhaps meant to fit into rococo mouldings, which celebrate Spring and Autumn.
In each country the Rococo took on a national character, and in addition many local variants may be distinguished.
The lounges and dining rooms are immensely pretty, with parquet floors, pastel walls, white stucco decorative mouldings and painted rococo ceilings in the Tiepolo style.
They offered me a morsel of their rococo scorpion roll, which snaked across a plate in sinuous curves.
He has nothing to do with the choppy rhythms of the Rococo, nor its obvious confession of make-believe.
Another example of the English rococo style is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum.
However, these vast Roman vistas are processed through the Rococo penchant for grandiose ornamentation and are window dressing, pure decoration.
From the plain, stately pieces of Queen Anne the public turned to the rococo French designs of early Chippendale, then tiring of that, veered back to classic lines, as done by the Adam brothers, and so on, from heavy Chippendale to the overlight and perishable The Art of Interior Decoration
The exceptionally well-proportioned case of richly figured mahogany original except for the cartouche, finials, feet, and dial-arch molding, is a monument to the rococo style.
As in the rococo period, virtually no surface was allowed to escape unembellished.
One of the most successful styles adopted by carvers of rococo overmantels was chinoiserie.
These were of eclectic style, many of them with baroque and rococo elements.
Thus we have a medley of dates, spanning the reigns of Louis XIII to Louis XV, if you include the rococo picture frame on the Rigaud to the right of the chimney.
The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms. Times, Sunday Times
The frames of Swedish rococo looking glasses followed the fashions of the day, with the crown and base often ornamented with rich rocaille decoration.
Even the delicate amatory trophy of Cupid's bow and arrow has moved away from chinoiserie and rococo sources.
Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
A gracefully arched rococo hall, resonant with the sound of violins, its gilded mirrors lit by a bevy of crystal chandeliers. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms. Times, Sunday Times
He produced some charming teawares decorated with putti and children in the rococo manner, and two wonderful mugs, now in the Victoria and Albert Museum, painted with children as topers outside a tavern.
an exquisite gilded rococo mirror
The rococo style is characterized by exuberant decoration and ornament frequently based on such natural motifs as shells, rocks, flowers, and leaves.
The fanciful asymmetry of the French rococo style was considered the essence of beauty.
Its interior is outstanding, having a three-sided gallery and a very ornate rococo plasterwork ceiling.
The whole tableau is set upon a rococo footed platter, white with gold wave trim, that recalls the mirrored trays of mid 20th-century suburban dresser sets.
In instrumental music, the rococo keyboard sonatas of Seixas rivalled those of Domenico Scarlatti, who worked at John's court between 1719 and 1728.
Actors dressed in historic costumes from the rococo era pose on August 26,2008 in Berlin.
This example of a Rococo clock shows just how skillful master wood carvers were at that time.
The arresting mirror from Milan shows the Italian rococo at its most lively, with scrollwork rising detached from the bottom of the frame, to converge in a vortex in time cresting.
Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
Her brushwork is lighter, looser, and more melodramatic than Freud's; there is even some pink playfulness - a touch of rococo - in her work.
As in the rococo period, virtually no surface was allowed to escape unembellished.
The stitch illustrated in fig. 87 is known as rococo stitch. Embroidery and Tapestry Weaving
The 24 bedrooms range from vast suites with parquet floors and rococo furniture to cosy single rooms. Times, Sunday Times
Painters of all styles and schools, from the most playful and sensual rococo to the most severely neoclassical, routinely took their subjects from classical mythology and history.
The rococo piece of furniture presumed a body lost in pleasures: lounging en déshabillé, listening to music, or engaged in the serious pursuit of culinary marvels.
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
Art nouveau's swirling forms and arabesques, decorative playfulness and openness to the exotic, in this case from Japan rather than China, also seem descended from rococo.
This example of a Rococo clock shows just how skillful master wood carvers were at that time.
The fire tore through the roof and top floor of the 16th-century rococo palace that houses the library. Times, Sunday Times
Before the house re-opened, she mowed the lawns into rococo designs, and this spring, he will create an installation in the grounds.
The quality of Calderwood's work during that period is illustrated by a fine pair of rococo candlesticks, in the collection of the National Museum of Ireland.
Although the cast feet and applied rim ornament are in an ornate rococo revival style, the details are not chased.
Think of Jacques-Louis David persuading his audience to remove the Rococo fluff from their eyes.
Rooms come in three styles: Moorish, with intricate plasterwork framing your bed; the more conventional Isabelline baroque; or Castilian, with rococo furniture and ornate silver mirrors.
The Luxury und Desire of Rococo: Duke Carl Eugens Venetian Fair" exhibits Rococo style porcelain and Venetian masks collected by Duke Carl Eugen of Wuertemberg on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Ludwigsburg porcelain factory. Time Off Europe Calendar
I'm going to dance a pas de deux to Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations - the andante - the woman the oboe, the cello the man. THE KINDEST USE A KNIFE
If anti-Rococo critics claimed oil paint was too much like cosmetic paint, social critics held that the reverse was true.
Accordingly, the transitional period between the opulent baroque period and the less formal rococo era of Louis XV became known as French Régence, or Regency.
The visual vocabulary of the Baroque and rococo, which the Europeans brought to Brazil, also lends itself to sublime extravagance.
This style, which is called rococo, corresponds to what in literature is known as preciosity; but towards the middle of the eighteenth century classical forms were revived, especially in the works of the famous architects Vanvitelli and Juvara, while Canova restored its simplicity to sculpture, combining the study of nature with that of classic forms. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent
When I first arrived at the Akademie Schloss Solitude near Stuttgart, Germany, I was struck by a flamboyant baroque and rococo construction.
Louis XV was the period when outline and decoration were merged in one and the _shell_ which figured in Louis XIV merely as an ornament, gave its form (in a curved outline) and its name "rococo" (Italian for shell) to the style. The Art of Interior Decoration
Her Great Room occupying the front of the house has a fine rococo ceiling, newly fashionable as a feature at the time.
She was like a figure from a rococo fresco, an eighteenth-century nymph. IN LOVE AND WAR
No matter how middle-of-the-road the ballad, Keys will plaster it with showy arpeggios, rococo trills and glissandos, an approach that brings to mind the unlovely image of Dido jamming with Richard Clayderman.
Still, if "rococo" could be applied to dressing, this would be it ... A Bit of Fluff: Late Baroque Fashions
Among the most excessive is the ravishing Vila Algarve, a rococo fantasy of curving terraces and balconies and stairways, topped off with urns and grotesques and maiolica-tiled tableaux, the whole place teetering on the verge of complete disintegration. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
A gallery full of exquisite portrait drawings of rococo ladies showing off their heads from all the best angles is scarily enticing. Times, Sunday Times
Another example of the English rococo style promoted by Moser is the snuffbox recently promised to the Museum.
A billycock is a beautiful object (it may be eagerly urged), but it is not in the same style of architecture as Ely Cathedral; it is a dome, a small rococo dome in the Renaissance manner, and does not go with the pointed arches that assault heaven like spears. Alarms and Discursions
To sell such a rococo character, the producers relied heavily on a number of sure-fire gimmicks.
The candlesticks with Apollo and Daphne, made in London around 1740, are rare and unusual examples of the full-blown English rococo.
In Haydn's C major sonata he navigates its florid rococo embroidery with the deft assurance of a Swiss jeweler, while lending to Rachmaninoff's blustery Etude Tableau in D the grandeur its imitative bell sonorities demand.
The rococo piece of furniture presumed a body lost in pleasures: lounging en déshabillé, listening to music, or engaged in the serious pursuit of culinary marvels.
For America's beleaguered liberals, Monday's New York Times reports what sounds like a dream come true: Fox News is considering parting company with Glenn Beck, the rococo conspiracy theorist who inspires those on the swivel-eyed right and infuriates anyone to their left. Glenn Beck's future at Fox News under threat | Richard Adams
Those made under Perkhin tend to be in the rococo Louis XV style and often have bodies of hardstones such as nephrite or bowenite.
She had a passion for Italian rococo.
The luxurious dress, ornate chair and intimate setting reflect the rococo spirit of the period.
In one shot she poses in a loud kimono-style dress and caresses the tail of a stuffed pheasant that forms part of what can only be described as a rococo charcuterie ensemble. Delizia!
The resulting console doesn't look like swoopy CAD seamlessness; rather, it's pure rococo, as if Super Mario were lumbering through an 18th-century French drawing room. Design of the Digital Age
A figure, immaculate in pinstripe suit and bowler hat, reclines before a bank of calculating devices - a curious mixture of early Cray mainframes and rococo, hand-carved wooden cases which look like they have been ripped from the organ gallery of a cathedral. Magnificent headline
Things like a mechanical bird tweeting in a rococo cage. Times, Sunday Times
Joseph McDonnell has highlighted instances where Irish goldsmiths appear to have used moulds to copy London designs in the rococo idiom.
The upper storey was a kind of salon furnished in rococo style with some fine paintings on the walls. Dictionary of Mind, Body and Spirit
Things like a mechanical bird tweeting in a rococo cage. Times, Sunday Times
The rococo style is characterized by exuberant decoration and ornament frequently based on such natural motifs as shells, rocks, flowers, and leaves.
A further four medallions were also added to the rococo ceiling in the Great Room, in this instance in monochrome with backgrounds painted to represent terracotta.
Romanesque, Gothic, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo facades combine to create majestic results.
Too big, too misshappen, too rococo: Midtown is scarred by atomic mutants that resemble hamburgers only as much as a chrome-rimmed escalade does a 1972 coupe de ville. PROFILED: Midtown Lunch’er “Josh Ozersky” & Book Giveaway | Midtown Lunch - Finding Lunch in the Food Wasteland of NYC's Midtown Manhattan
The Grade 1 listed Georgian house, which boasts one of the finest English rococo-style interiors, is a not-for-profit members 'club donating its membership fee, and bar and restaurant profits to fund a life skills and job training programme for homeless people. The members' club that serves up help for homeless people
But more picturesque venues include the Gothic convent of St Agnes of Bohemia and the Kinsky Palace, the most beautiful rococo building in Prague.
Each is massively framed by an ornate gilt rococo cartouche carved by Giovanni Giuliani in 1706.
The elaborate epergne, made by Thomas Pitts of London in 1761, bespeaks the chinoiserie influence on late rococo English decorative arts.
Unfortunately, Kimbrough has a problematic rococo streak and can be a real cornball.
His rococo pieces were obviously executed before the neo-classical ones, but the transition between the two styles in England spanned at least a decade.
From one perspective, the looping appendages and curving elements suggest the handles and decorative curlicues of a Rococo urn.
Finally, the third-floor galleries provide a survey of European paintings from the medieval, Renaissance, baroque, and rococo periods.
Charles-Joseph Natoire's resplendent decorative style typifies the sophistication and elegance of French art during the rococo period.

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