rococo
Speech parts
1. rococo - Noun
2. rococo - Adjective
3. rococo - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.
Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.
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When Humphries writes in propria persona his prose can scarcely contain its freight of cultivated allusions. He writes the most nutritiously rococo English in Australia today, but nobody will be able to inherit it. To know him would not be enough. You would have to know what he knows.
an exquisite gilded rococo mirror
An exotic but in some ways more formal type of Rococo appeared in France where Louis XIV 's succession brought a change in the court artists and general artistic fashion.
Boucher decided that instead of taking over David's tutelage, he would send David to his friend, Joseph-Marie Vien (1716–1809), a painter who embraced the classical reaction to Rococo.
Baroque and Rococo main File:Caravaggio - Bacco adolescente - Google Art Project.
Boucher was a Rococo painter, but tastes were changing, and the fashion for Rococo was giving way to a more classical style.