| 单词 | rococo |
| 例句 | The place was all red velvet, chandeliers, and rococo flourishes. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z He found the Chinese Palm Court, complete with not only live palm trees but high white-plastered rococo ceilings, marble columns, delicate hand-painted Asian wall murals, and Chippendale furniture. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z Old buildings, whose gray rococo facades housed my memories of the Forty-Niners, and Diamond Lil, Robert Service, Sutter and Jack London, were then imposing structures viciously joined to keep me out. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z Grimy brick tenements shifted in the corner of my eye, acquiring decorative statues and rococo stuccowork—the adornments of a European city. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z Pairs were nesting in the rococo architecture of the churches and Victorian houses. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z We were led out of the elevator through a rococo hall into an anteroom and told to get into our fighting togs. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z Farther up on the green stood a tall brown Victorian house, quiet in the sunlight, all covered with scrolls and rococo, its windows made of blue and pink and yellow and green colored glass. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z Just ornate lamps and an embroidered sofa and the swarming rococo wallpaper. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z The front of the plant was a brick commercial building of the nineteenth century with a mansard roof that bulged out into several rococo dormer windows, the panes of which were mostly cracked. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, his signature spare sentences, when spoken by actors, often sound as affected as the most rococo effusions of Oscar Wilde. | 'Hemingway?s Garden of Eden': In the South of France, a 1927 M?nage ? Trois Takes an Incendiary Turn 2010-12-09T23:38:00Z Trump’s own penthouse quarters, originally decorated with a kind of haute “Miami Vice” elegance by the celebrity interior designer Angelo Donghia, have since acquired a rococo of neoclassical pilasters, ceiling murals, and gilded chairs. Seeing Trump in Trump Tower 2016-10-06T04:00:00Z Photograph: © Quentin Blake/Marlborough Fine Art For a maternity hospital in Angers, where the mood is more celebratory – though tension is there, nonetheless – Blake adopted a swimming theme, with rococo swirls of seaweed. Quentin Blake at 80: the illustrator's magical art 2012-12-14T22:55:10Z One looks like a house on a cliff; another is a rococo hut. Rachel Feinstein’s ‘Folly’ in Madison Square Park 2014-08-07T04:00:00Z “Hallelujah” survived the doctor dramas and the evening-soap finales, but it almost succumbed to reality TV, where unseasoned vocalists repeatedly tried to impress their judges by remaking it with big runs and rococo flourishes. How Pop Culture Wore Out Leonard Cohen’s ‘Hallelujah’ 2016-09-19T04:00:00Z Chris Antemann puts a bawdy spin on rococo porcelain figurines of the 18th century with "A Slip Betwixt the Cup and the Lip" and two other elaborate pieces. Some smashing ceramics are on view at Bellevue Arts Museum's "Clay Throwdown!" 2010-09-02T19:20:00Z Nor was French art limited to rococo frippery and blushing pink ladies. The French, improving American taste for more than 200 years 2017-06-02T04:00:00Z Thirty minutes later and less than a half mile down the sharply graded descent toward the river, I was staring at the rococo facade of the Igreja da Misericórdia, which dates to the 16th century. Discovering the Douro 2010-05-28T14:25:00Z Brookman is known for fashionable rococo designs; a handful survive and strongly resemble the Keno lot. Antiques: Bringing Out the Mummies at the Bass Museum 2010-04-29T20:57:00Z In Rococo those kids are talking, "using big words that they don't understand/They say/Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo/Rococo, rococo, rococo, rococo … " Rococo is indeed a big word, so let's try and understand it. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z The art of Jeff Koons is one long argument for a rococo acceptance of the pleasures of the world as it is. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z Skies of lush, loose brushwork are lit up by rococo turquoise, peach and gold, while people seem to have vanished. Artist of the week: Christopher Orr 2010-05-19T11:15:00Z This precocious British artist works in a light, frothy mode that might be called postmodern rococo. Art Review: Haim Steinbach’s and Helen Marten’s Solos at Bard College 2013-08-01T22:21:00Z Up to this point, the poem has been largely a catalogue of marvels, stylistically notable for its rococo similes and quick transitions between episodes. ‘Jason and the Argonauts’: Picture thepre-Trojan War equivalent of the Avengers Light from a fireplace spilled onto the Tuscan columns and dark-wood-paneled walls of a rococo den, while a likeness of her father grinned inside the frame of a nearby oil painting. Victoria Gotti Is Back in a Big Way on Your Teensy Screens 2019-02-14T05:00:00Z They were youngish ladies, whose versions of old themes are encrusted with rococo artifice. Old wives' tales 2010-05-14T23:00:00Z In the early 21st century, the rococo lives on. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z “I would like to make it less terrifying by making fun of it because you just can’t be terrifying if you’re rococo,” he said. Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z A long strip of gauzy fabric weaves over and around the bags, sometimes veiling their openings and variously conjuring rococo frills, the female anatomy, and a sneaking suspicion that supermarkets-are-us. A Rare Look at Rauschenberg’s Second Act 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z Such subtle details anchored a show in which Mr. Lagerfeld did not otherwise try to rock the rococo. Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z It changed everything I thought about the rococo. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z But if you answer the question as religious or even spiritual, the church awards you a diploma bordered in sturdy Gothic imagery with an array of rococo ribbons adorning the top. Hiking Through History, With Your Daughters 2013-04-17T16:26:43Z And there she is, in a splendid, close-fitting evening dress, sitting demurely on a low, round rococo stall, framed by two huge blood-red velvet curtains that hang either side of a giant Georgian window. Model, muse and memorable handshake 2014-09-04T04:00:00Z Though there were imperfections in Tuesday’s performance, I marveled at how the dancers — amid the rococo complications of Ashton’s choreography — never failed just to dance. Dance Review: American Ballet Theater?s Ashton Program at the Met 2010-06-09T22:16:00Z As the sun rose over rococo Paris, the chic awoke in stylish single beds in niche bedrooms, leaving ballustraded beds in drafty state bedrooms unoccupied. The lap of luxury 2011-07-29T22:55:02Z The rococo rhymes on this momentous new album, “Thank You for Using GTL,” were recorded entirely over the phone. Review | The most urgent rap album of 2020? Drakeo the Ruler just phoned it in from jail. 2020-06-09T04:00:00Z Leanne Benjamin, in particular, appears joyously liberated by a dance language that is at once so formal, each turn and curve cutting back on itself with rococo precision, and so intuitive in its femininity. Royal Ballet triple bill – review 2013-03-03T00:05:19Z Among the trophies was a highly unusual rococo armchair carved to resemble blooming branches, a piece later acquired by philanthropist couple Jayne and Charles Wrightsman, who gave it to New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. A Look at Fashion Designer Jacques Doucet's Collectibles 2014-08-27T04:00:00Z “It was a very rococo piece,” she said. Ars Longa, Except When MoMA Throws It Out 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z The artists who imitated him were denounced as rococo fantasists, abhorred in the age of the French revolution as the epitome of all that was decadent and trivial in the court of the Ancien Régime. Watteau at the Royal Academy: the theatre of life 2011-03-14T17:11:09Z The Beasties represented the classicist strain of sneaker collecting, which had by then entered its rococo phase. How Sneakers Intersect With Recent American History 2018-07-05T04:00:00Z Baum kept the rococo creatures of antique fairy tales — Munchkins and flying monkeys in place of gnomes and talking donkeys — while discarding the medieval morality. Oz Revisited – Part 2: How They Made It Wonderful 2013-09-17T15:44:25Z Roberta Smith called Ms. Marten, then 27, a “precocious British artist” who “works in a light, frothy mode that might be called postmodern rococo.” Multimedia Artist Helen Marten Wins Turner Prize 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z It could have been rococo, or a little silly — or worse, boring. What Happened at the 2016 Emmy Awards 2016-09-18T04:00:00Z To contrive some sort of collaboration between Shakespeare and Cervantes, literary matchmakers could have skipped all their needy, rococo chess moves. The secret connection between Cervantes and Shakespeare 2016-04-14T04:00:00Z The moment is superbly played by Janet Leigh: this is an unbearably tense and horribly real scene – different, in many ways, to the remaining rococo fantasy of strangeness and fear. My favourite Hitchcock: Psycho 2012-07-23T10:57:21Z Perspective is minimized and a rococo palette competes with a hint of Dutch old master sobriety. Jennifer Lawrence’s New Vogue Cover: a John Currin Painting 2017-08-09T04:00:00Z His answer: “Westlake is allusive, indirect, referential, a bit rococo, Stark strips his sentences down to the necessary information.” Michael Dirda reviews ‘The Getaway Car,’ a collection of Donald E. Westlake pieces Instead, fancy mirrors, rococo sofas and even hunting dogs are made as cardboard cutouts. A Celebration of Dressing Up 2012-05-21T12:30:29Z Walls latticed with cutout stars and squiggles, as well as portraits of the Royal Family, hinted at rococo exuberance, Moorish and Caribbean architecture with a dash of Victorian merry-go-round. This week's new exhibitions 2011-02-26T00:07:56Z Classic bouclé suits and A-line coats were layered with bicycle shorts; cocktail dresses in the same clean lines encrusted in tarnished metallics, industrial and gilt-edged; and balloon-shaped Neoprene gowns embroidered in rococo curls. Paris Couture Review: Chanel, Dior, Armani Privé and More 2014-07-09T04:00:00Z Mr. Bedford’s production is not entirely effortless — Wilde’s rococo style can be daunting even to experienced classicists — but it is more buoyant and consistently funny than any I’ve seen. | 'The Importance of Being Earnest': A Stylish Monster Conquers at a Glance 2011-01-14T03:00:01Z Maybe Diana Vreeland’s description of the perfect color red comes close: “rococo with a spot of Gothic in it and a bit of Buddhist temple.” The Art of Staying Cool: 10 Can’t-Miss Summer Shows in New York 2018-07-04T04:00:00Z Wistful and no-nonsense, an unmoussed Smart was speaking from her Los Angeles home, perched atop a satiny pink chair with a rococo design. The Re-Re-Rebirth of Jean Smart 2021-05-17T04:00:00Z She then packed it to the ceilings with Renaissance paintings, Roman sculptures, rococo furniture, modern drawings, medieval whats-its and Asian doodads, each as exactingly placed as a piece of mosaic. 2010-01-15T06:06:00Z Conducted by David Bloom, the quartet nimbly negotiated the score’s fluid transitions from gritty waltzes to punk-rock explosions, from rococo ornaments to dissonant chords. Review: ‘Mata Hari,’ a Different Kind of Queen of the Night 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z Bruno kindly said she looked like she was “gliding around like a rococo lampshade on wheels.” 'Dancing with the Stars' Watch 2015-10-19T04:00:00Z It is totally unlike all the baroque, rococo and renaissance beauties in this show – which I will review shortly. Leonardo da Vinci's Battle of Anghiari draws me into a black hole 2010-09-23T14:33:00Z But there’s also this rococo, a kind of mad decoration.” Heads Up: In Potsdam, Germany, a Time to Celebrate 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z “For three years I was the “rococo guy,” even though the radiator was so not about rococo,” he groaned. Design: From Lab to Life, a 'New World of Objects' 2010-03-15T13:40:00Z The Aman is beautifully restored, without the rococo excess of most Venetian hotels; here, the interiors retain their heritage of grandeur, complemented by clean, modern furnishings. Roberto CoinVoice: How To Explore Venice Like A True Venetian 2014-11-14T05:00:00Z Its wooden rococo shelves hold 36,000 volumes from the 14th to 19th centuries. For an expansive sampling of Portugal, make Lisbon your home base — then plan day-trips to these coastal villages and medieval cities 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z If so, and you were able to disentangle all the real/surreal kinks and knots in its rococo plot, you may just fathom the murky doings in the new Café Nordo show, "Somethin' Burning." Review: Café Nordo's fare better than its 'Twin Peaks'-like whodunit 2012-10-18T20:19:04Z “You see the cut of her gown was old-fashioned rococo, but the embroidery on it was up-to-date—quite fashionable,” Toftegaard says. A trove of rare dresses and textiles is unveiled in Denmark 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z An obvious comparison is with early Sarah Waters: in fact, Elijah's Mermaid is more rococo and slightly harder work than, say, Affinity. Thrillers - reviews 2012-10-11T07:00:02Z So is pink, a color that links rococo to Miami Beach art-deco buildings and what the gallery’s note calls “pool-party culture.” Review | In the galleries: Cultures, collisions, climate change and French connections 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z For you, the rococo has a frightening dimension. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z Granger had an eye for design, and decked out the restaurant in the minimalist style that was beginning to supersede eighties rococo. The Man Who Made the Australian Café (and, Yes, Avocado Toast) a Global Phenomenon 2018-07-30T04:00:00Z And though some of Balanchine’s individual steps recalled the old Bolshoi divertissement, he connected them with a dazzlingly rococo bravura previously unknown anywhere. City Ballet Presents a Lyrical Program in Saratoga 2014-07-11T04:00:00Z There is an intrinsically French lightness to the decoration, which is more rococo than baroque — and more playful than either of those art forms. An Art Menagerie Touched With Magic 2010-03-29T15:27:00Z That’s what started my interest in the European baroque and rococo. Rachel Feinstein Unveils the Darker Side of Fantasyland 2020-01-02T05:00:00Z You can't get more rococo than a puppy made of flowers. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z The dolls – Harlequin, Columbine, and Soldier, emerging from big rococo cases – really register as an introduction to magic, ballet and drama. ArtsBeat: The Nutcracker Chronicles: Dreaming of Snow 2010-12-23T12:00:37Z Heaven, and its symbolics, and the jagged Chicago skyline are most-requested motifs, and they are rendered with an almost rococo decadence. Memorial T-Shirts Create a Little Justice, a Tiny Peace 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z “Can you imagine what the place looked like in its heyday?” he said, looking up from a church pew into the soaring, rococo ceiling. ‘Low Winter Sun’ Gives Detroit a Leading Role 2013-08-02T12:00:19Z Joshua may be the one scrambling through “rococo hopelessness,” but he’s an endearing slacker insulated from real tragedy. ‘The Making of Zombie Wars’ goes beyond the undead 2015-05-26T04:00:00Z It was Heat Wave, a radiator made from rococo swirls of concrete. Design: From Lab to Life, a 'New World of Objects' 2010-03-15T13:40:00Z The events are as gloriously rococo as the farces beloved of 18th-century audiences. Queen, thief, wife, lover 2014-07-10T04:00:00Z Philosophical critic Denis Diderot complained of the shallowness of rococo art and championed a new kind of serious, high-minded painting. Arcade Fire's Rococo lampoons a frivolous age through art 2010-12-02T16:35:00Z Not because of the two genders so much — Mr. Michele’s aesthetic is equal opportunity rococo — but because the combined show allowed for even more exits: 120 in total. Gucci’s All-Inclusive Fancy Dress Fandango 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z This buoyant exhibition looks at the rococo genre of the fête galante — 18th century, cotton candy-colored images of outdoor, countryside parties. What's on This Week Around the World 1458-12-10T05:00:00Z A rococo Prague State Opera House is the setting, though the entertainment ranges from arias to a traditional Cambodian dance. In Transit: Dance the Night Away at Prague Opera Ball 2011-02-03T11:00:10Z Bodinetz's production, jointly presented with English Touring Theatre, is refreshingly rococo – it's almost a novelty to witness a set of Molière characters corresponding through billet-doux rather than by text message. The Misanthrope – review 2013-02-21T17:43:00Z The women I saw seemed to want nothing more than to throw beige cashmere cardigans over these rococo brassieres. Critical Shopper: Agent Provocateur, Selling Kink on Madison Avenue 2011-02-23T19:49:37Z Cabinetmakers in Lancaster, which was situated on the trade route between Philadelphia and the U.S. interior, blended the Philadelphia rococo aesthetic with their German Baroque design heritage. A Lancaster Chippendale Desk-and-Bookcase Is on the Block 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z To the designer’s credit, his theme never exploded into a riot of rococo — producing instead a streamlined collection, done with a light hand. Special Report: Fashion: Gaultier: From Cheek to Chic 2011-01-27T18:38:23Z In Pynchon, sometimes, mysterious sects appear to guide grand conspiracies and orchestrate rococo pranks. “Lodge 49,” Reviewed: Channelling Pynchon to Capture California’s High Hopes and Deep Loss 2018-08-06T04:00:00Z To become Edna, Humphries would put on a mauve wig, an increasingly rococo pair of eyeglasses and a glittering gown that screeched conspicuous consumption. The Cathartic Value of Dame Edna’s Extravaganzas of Ego 2023-04-24T04:00:00Z The bawdy is exemplary in its mix of filth and elegance: a love duet invoking the pastoral delights of Squanderfield's "lady garden" blossoms with rococo innuendo. Pleasure's Progress 2010-06-22T21:20:00Z With their curves and flanges they could be giant examples of Julia’s rococo designs. Meet Warhol, Again, in This Brilliant Whitney Show 2018-11-08T05:00:00Z “I just thought it sounded prettier than Roko’s Basilisk, like adding a rococo element just elevates it,” she said. Elon Musk, Blasting Off in Domestic Bliss 2020-07-25T04:00:00Z Baroque and rococo styles, the neo-classical and romantic revolts, realism in the 19th century and modernism at the birth of the 20th – all bonded artists and intellectuals and publics from Poland to Denmark. Europe has been building a secret community of culture 2010-11-23T20:00:00Z The rococo romanticism of “Emeralds,” the simultaneous music-hall colloquialism and astringent modernity of “Rubies” and the grand imperial manner of “Diamonds” all show us the range of styles that Balanchine commanded. Dance Review: Three Gems of the Here and Now 2011-06-06T22:04:19Z Or as mainman Collard raps on a later track, Blackout, "I'm looking so rococo." New band of the day – Last Night In Paris 2013-02-15T08:00:00Z Inside the apple orchard, we discover a realm of rococo elegance, artificiality and wit. Review | From the author of ‘Morning Has Broken,’ magical tales perfect for Valentine’s Day 2021-02-10T05:00:00Z For the wedding scene, he conjured a neoclassical palace, “like in an ancient lithograph, very rococo.” Christian Lacroix Puts Opulence into a ‘Midsummer Night’s’ Ballet 2017-03-07T05:00:00Z Named after cabinetmaker Thomas Chippendale, the school of craftsmanship—known for blending Gothic, Asian, and French rococo style—thrived during the late 18th century in cities around the world. A Lancaster Chippendale Desk-and-Bookcase Is on the Block 2015-01-20T05:00:00Z For one, the sheer volume of rococo invention. A Wildly Inventive Fantasy Series That Began on the Web and Became a Best-Seller 2016-06-07T04:00:00Z With conceptual art in ascendance, Locke’s intricate drawings of royals and rococo cardboard structures were on the wrong side of institutional trends, passed over in favor of the Young British Artists. Bright Colors, Dark Subjects: Hew Locke’s Unsettling Pageant 2022-04-01T04:00:00Z The works on display range from prehistoric to Spanish rococo to 20th-century photography, with the links between present-day Peruvians and their pre-conquest society firmly, hauntingly stated throughout. Week Ahead: New Year’s celebrations in full bloom 2013-12-24T21:30:30Z In contrast to the rococo lifestyle excesses often rhymed about by Jay-Z and his former protege, the stage set for their five-night run at the O2 as Watch the Throne is relatively minimal. Jay-Z and Kanye West – review 2012-05-26T23:05:46Z He is deeply drawn, though, to focusing on diversity as the serpent in the garden, the major corrupter of his rococo educational vision. Two Views of the Tumult on American Campuses 2019-08-20T04:00:00Z The rococo Versace Mansion in the heart of South Beach remains an icon of fascination. Versace Mansion Reborn as Miami Hotel 2010-03-23T21:00:00Z The wings might belong to cherubs, common in rococo scenes. Review | In the galleries: Cultures, collisions, climate change and French connections 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z Beyond Mr. Hirst’s heaps of money and rococo persona, his relationship to truth with a capital “T” might be his biggest draw. Damien Hirst’s Post-Venice, Post-Truth World 2018-03-13T04:00:00Z One chancellor interrupts Newman’s strict, flat, painted surface by sending across it a rococo swirl of cigarette smoke. Four Not-to-Miss Photography Shows 2016-12-14T05:00:00Z Intricate rococo mechanical tabletops open and fold back to reveal hidden compartments and mirrors, and even the tiniest nécessaire boxes pop open with charming vials and makeup tools. "Metropolitan Vanities" at The Metropolitan Museum of Art : Architectural Digest 2013-12-20T05:00:00Z Among all those strange, unreal styles, the frilly fantasies of the rococo, say, or the grand postures of history painting, the camera-crisp art of Vermeer is something to latch on to. Johannes Vermeer is a pearl – not a diamond 2013-06-20T13:56:50Z “Marry ‘Harry,’ ” which starts on Tuesday night, is merely a more rococo version. ‘I Wanna Marry “Harry,” ’ a Reality Series on Fox 2014-05-19T04:00:00Z A country in miniature, Portugal Bored with all that pesky sightseeing, those endless historical monuments, the dull drag of yet another rococo cathedral altar? 10 of Europe’s oddest attractions and events 2016-06-22T04:00:00Z The models walked in jeans and flat shoes — but the pants were balanced by the rococo lightness of dresses, shimmering with embroidery and light-handed decoration. Special Report: Fashion: Reflecting on the Future 2011-01-25T18:18:38Z Touches of beauty — spiffy hats, cascades of bougainvillea, rococo arrangements of fruit — create oases of light and pleasure. Between Birth and Death, Some Dancing and a Little Mystery 2017-08-21T04:00:00Z She has infused her work with that city’s fondness for rococo décor since 1994, when she first started exhibiting in New York galleries. | A Snow Queen for Our Time 2011-02-02T19:17:16Z Several books of rococo paintings are opened to pages with scenes that echo the ones Kassewitz painted. Review | In the galleries: Cultures, collisions, climate change and French connections 2020-01-09T05:00:00Z In the Vogue shoot, Mr. Mitchell photographed Beyoncé as regent, perched on a throne in rococo crowns of spilling flowers, tropes of Renaissance portraiture and white European aristocracy. Tyler Mitchell: ‘Black Beauty Is an Act of Justice’ 2020-07-24T04:00:00Z Its over-the-top rococo style was designed to show off the luxuriousness of the French court when its owner brought the chair with her on European travels. Masterpieces of 18th-century French furniture showing at Versailles 2014-11-05T05:00:00Z Seventeen miles away in Potsdam, he built a one-story rococo castle atop a slope, eventually adding more than 700 acres of manicured parks and buildings to a place he would name Sanssouci, French for “carefree.” Heads Up: In Potsdam, Germany, a Time to Celebrate 2012-01-27T18:02:32Z The cuffs and collars and doublets, and curled and powdered wigs, are perfectly serviceable but could use more rococo ornamentation, with brighter colors, opulent fabrics and jewels. ‘Barococo’ Review: Fop Till You Drop 2022-02-21T05:00:00Z She brought plenty of grace to the piece’s evocations of rococo style. Review: A Nostalgia Trip at the New York Philharmonic 2018-01-05T05:00:00Z Fact-checking is a rococo practice whose original object was simply shielding publications from liability. Fact-Check of a ‘Lifespan’ 2018-12-03T05:00:00Z Bertie’s extant sketches for the wall paneling, ceiling decorations and library shelves in the main rooms are rich in rococo borders and ornament. Bloedel Reserve blends architectural heritage with enchanting gardens 2023-10-14T04:00:00Z In the 18th century, the ornamental rococo style introduced a more delicate and whimsical approach to pillow trim. The art of the pillow trim 2023-09-18T04:00:00Z Purple, pink and teal, with whimsical rococo plasterwork, the Venetian Court homes are an indelible snapshot of 1920s California. In the face of sea level rise, can we reimagine California's vanishing coastline? 2023-08-22T04:00:00Z The overwrought concerns about Social Security’s fiscal condition never ceases to produce rococo proposals for reform. Column: Social Security is perfectly healthy, but there's one easy way to improve it 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z Bell's work leaned on his background in classical music, and he introduced instruments like the celesta, sitar, oboe, bassoon, cor anglais and bells into his rococo arrangements. Thom Bell: Philadelphia soul pioneer dies at 79 2022-12-23T05:00:00Z The church’s interior is a breathtaking rococo riot, with a ceiling that looks like a collection of upside-down wedding cakes. Looking to bike in Europe? Lake Constance straddles three countries. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The theater — a rococo palace of gold braid, red Lyonnais velvet, chandeliers and mirrors — was about a third full as a result of security restrictions. Odesa Opera House Reopens, Defying Putin’s Barbarism 2022-06-18T04:00:00Z The country’s leaders, when they deign to appear on TV via prerecorded appearances, are presented in isolation, conversing with each other in rococo czarist palaces or lifeless rooms deep inside the Kremlin. Perspective | How is the war going for Putin on social media? Not great. 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z At 42, Méndez has mastered advanced stitches like the closed buttonhole and rococo. Mexico’s cultural appropriation ban is off to a messy start 2022-02-12T05:00:00Z Luxury, in films like “Cinderella,” is denoted by gold-gilded mirrors, encrusted with the vine and shell motifs that defined the rococo style. Review | The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z Pilgrimage church with rococo interior and stunning lake views. Looking to bike in Europe? Lake Constance straddles three countries. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z The more rococo version of this theory is that the virus was deliberately manufactured at the WIV and either escaped inadvertently or was purposely let loose. Column: When will the Wall Street Journal stop publishing lab-leak propaganda? 2021-10-08T04:00:00Z That license is the ticket to a legally valid marriage at one of the city’s dozens of chapels, which offer fast, budget-conscious services in themed settings ranging from elegant to rococo. The Vegas Chapels Are Open, and Waiting 2021-01-02T05:00:00Z I would suggest that the crisis of democracy — or what I have previously described as World War IV, an overlapping but larger phenomenon — has entered its decadent or rococo phase. Trump, the Proud Boys and the Kraken: Is the #EndofDemocracy just a meme — or the real thing? 2020-12-14T05:00:00Z The rococo style, Burchard argues, wasn’t just luxe: “It is its dynamic asymmetry, freedom of association, its overwhelming sense of movement, irony and joy that distinguish it from other styles.” Review | The dark side of Disney’s unexpected love affair with frothy French rococo 2022-01-06T05:00:00Z That row of parsley might no longer looks like a dense green, miniature rococo landscape, but it’s still tasty. Gardening: Extend your fresh vegetable harvest season 2020-11-24T05:00:00Z “It's a snail's tongue, looking like a decadent rococo chandelier,” he adds. Luminous Zebra Fish Wins Contest for Microscopic Photography 2020-10-15T04:00:00Z “Some people call it art deco. I’ve heard it referred to as overwrought rococo. It’s a very unique mix of modernism, modern architecture, combined with very flashy, glitzy, almost vintage style of architecture.” Thais bid addio to theater where they fell in love with film 2020-07-05T04:00:00Z These crypto-zoological or neo-mythological creatures navigate worlds that combine the interiors of luxury hotels and boutiques with the exteriors of space ships and baroque and rococo buildings. Take a virtual excursion in this digital art exhibition 2020-04-14T04:00:00Z An unconsummated crime is no crime at all, or so Jordan, one of the Republican Party’s more rococo philosophers, argued on Wednesday in defense of President Trump. Opinion | Devin Nunes Is Danielle Steel 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z The effect is a little rococo, a little rock ‘n’ roll. RIGHT AT HOME: Design and décor with British flair 2019-10-30T04:00:00Z She is a longtime and deft practitioner of what might be described as a rococo heightening of all-court style. Karolína Muchová and the Czech Republic’s New Tennis Generation 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z But Dr. Arnold, who last year became just the fifth woman in history to win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, is the opposite of stupid, and her stories sometimes turn rococo. Frances Arnold Turns Microbes Into Living Factories 2019-05-28T04:00:00Z He erodes consonants, turns simple vowels into unpredictable diphthongs, and takes each new sentence as an opportunity for rococo improvisation. Tracy Morgan Turns the Drama of His Life Into Comedy 2019-05-06T04:00:00Z Baroque and rococo artists embraced the childlike Cupid by combining him with the biblical figure of the cherub. Five myths about Valentine’s Day 2019-02-08T05:00:00Z In one scene, Trump ushered contestants through his rococo Trump Tower aerie, and said, “I show this apartment to very few people. Presidents. Kings.” How Mark Burnett Resurrected Donald Trump as an Icon of American Success 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z This jewel of a building, with its soaring white facade and rococo architectural details, opened in 1925 as a vaudeville house and movie theater. You’re going where? Pensacola, Fla. 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Kors said Tuesday that it will spend that sum to acquire the Italian fashion label known for its distinct rococo style — a far cry from the affordable luxury that has been Kors’ hallmark. American fashion house Michael Kors takes $2.2-billion wager on Versace's rococo flourishes - Los Angeles Times 2018-09-25T04:00:00Z With that, he got up and went over to the Saint Nicholas Church, a fabulous example of rococo art. In the high mountains of Sicily, a quieter and wilder world 2018-08-28T04:00:00Z Cameras lingered worshipfully over the rococo and the vulgar. Robin Leach, ‘Jacuzzi’ journalist who hosted TV’s ‘Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous,’ dies at 76 2018-08-24T04:00:00Z With 30 days to vacate her 56,500-square-foot mansion, Candy Spelling had decades of rococo treasures to relocate. California's oldest mover thrives on pampering and privacy 2018-07-08T04:00:00Z The May 26 Free for All letter “Eschew rococo verbiage” was critical of The Post’s op-ed writers for using words deemed too obscure for the average reader. Opinion | Should Post columnists dumb down their language? 2018-06-01T04:00:00Z Every item — brocade sofas, velvet upholstered chairs, metal hinges, parquet de Versailles floors — is period perfect; Smith will brook no interruption of his rococo illusion. In the Heart of Louisiana, One Man’s Impossibly Ornate Home 2018-05-08T04:00:00Z This rococo deconstruction exemplified the very self-absorption that got us into this mess in the first place. Opinion | The News Isn’t Fake. But It’s Flawed. 2018-05-19T04:00:00Z He used his rococo language to get inside the heads of his characters and reveal what motivated them — which in his telling was, above all, the quest for status. Opinion | American literature, and American life, will be poorer without Tom Wolfe 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z “His prose style is normally shotgun baroque, sometimes edging over into machine-gun rococo, as in his article on Las Vegas which begins by repeating the word ‘hernia’ 57 times.” Tom Wolfe, Author of ‘The Right Stuff’ and ‘Bonfire of the Vanities,’ Dies 2018-05-15T04:00:00Z Comedians made fun of her squeaky voice and frizzy hair, and her dark, rococo office lit only by Tiffany lamps. Comedy Store owner Mitzi Shore dead at 87 2018-04-11T04:00:00Z And their look flits from rococo one day to bohemian the next. Chloe and Halle Bailey on their personal style, getting ready for their Coachella debut and Beyoncé 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z My interest now, more aesthetic than athletic, is increasingly in the players’ rococo hairdos, body tattoos and exotic first names. I Loved College Basketball, but Now I Feel March Sadness 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z Full of lavish, rococo string arrangements and buoyant melodies, it finds the singer shedding his anxieties and settling down. The Top 10 albums of 2017 2017-12-21T05:00:00Z The rococo ground-floor dining room was dim and muggy, despite the best efforts of an industrial dehumidifier... An Escape to Miami, Beautifully Resilient After Hurricane Irma 2017-11-14T05:00:00Z Laarman and his team of computer scientists, engineers and craftsmen seem at first glance to get their inspiration from the past, with designs reminiscent of Art Nouveau or even rococo. Dutch design lab blends naturalistic and futuristic 2017-10-11T04:00:00Z With red drapes and rococo design detail, this classic French restaurant oozes romance. Where to find bottomless-brunch drinks for $12 and under in D.C. 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z The article described the decor as “rococo, the 18th century French style that preferred ornate details, curving furniture, and an abundance of gold.” White House a ‘dump’ for Trump 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z Jim’s plan for surviving the apocalypse seems somewhat rococo to me. America's midlife crisis: lessons from a survivalist summit 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z The one that assembles on Wednesday, in a rococo 19th-century office building just steps from the White House, bears no resemblance to any of them. Trump Election Commission, Already Under Fire, Holds First Meeting 2017-07-19T04:00:00Z The 18th-century rococo and the strange genius of Fragonard is not something he discovered yesterday. Jeff Koons' Louis Vuitton bags: a joyous art history lesson 2017-04-12T04:00:00Z The photo is forward-thinking but with traces of historical art traditions from the past – conjuring an appealing remix of rococo excesses, Flemish portraiture and Latin American funerary symbols. Decoding Beyoncé's pregnancy pic: a remix of rococo and Flemish influences 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z When Hulk Hogan faced off in court against the Web site Gawker, earlier this year, it was easy to become distracted by the rococo tawdriness of the spectacle. Gawker’s Demise and the Trump-Era Threat to the First Amendment 2016-12-11T05:00:00Z Techies who live on Soylent and attention-deficit drugs all day and then spend their wealth on rococo meals costing hundreds of dollars are living very weird, insular lives. Dinner, Disrupted 2016-08-06T04:00:00Z Built in the 17th century, when Sweden was Northern Europe’s great power, the palace got a sumptuous rococo upgrade a century later. A Long Summer Weekend in Stockholm 2016-06-02T04:00:00Z He traveled widely and emulated French rococo and impressionism. A glimpse into the lives of Russia’s 17th-century elite 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z The rococo period began in the late 17th century as a rebellion from the popular baroque style. Decoding Beyoncé's pregnancy pic: a remix of rococo and Flemish influences 2017-02-01T05:00:00Z The castle’s architecture—a mixture of Gothic, Baroque, and rococo styles—is a testament to its long history, which dates back to the late thirteenth century. Searching for Nazi Gold 2016-05-09T04:00:00Z Until shortly before his death on April 7, at 89, Mr. Patten had lived in rococo splendor in a sprawling private apartment in Atlanta’s historic Fox Theater. Joe Patten, Theater Caretaker Known as ‘Phantom of the Fox,’ Dies at 89 2016-04-12T04:00:00Z Photograph: Jack Robinson/Getty Images The unintended consequence of writing about laconic, iron-jawed heroes was that Wolfe repressed his most rococo stylistic flourishes. The 100 best nonfiction books: No 7 – The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe (1979) 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z The ghetto, even Bassi acknowledges, is not a beautiful place, but the interiors of the synagogues are hidden gems, bursting with baroque and rococo carvings in wood and gilt. Venice Jews work to preserve the world's first ghetto as 500th anniversary nears 2016-03-07T05:00:00Z “I didn’t see French rococo exactly, but that lace was the biggest inspiration,” she said, fingering a delicate sleeve edged with froth. At Laredo's colonial pageant, Tex-Mex culture and Martha Washington meet 2016-02-19T05:00:00Z At Bryant Park in Manhattan, the fountain was nearly frozen solid, its burbling spigots stilled and turned into a rococo pile of icicles. Parade in Chinatown Raises Spirits During a Record Plunge in Temperature 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z But the hosts are soon coming back at the visitors, Silva dribbling into the box from the left, a burst of rococo beauty. Manchester City v Leicester City: Premier League – live! 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z It is the memory of a Bracebridge Dinner, the great social event of Yosemite, a rococo Renaissance pageant held at the Ahwahnee every winter. What’s in a Name at Yosemite? 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z There is an abundance of crown molding used as a rococo decorative element, flat indirect lighting and an occasional mounted plaster bust. Warm up with dizi at Nersses Vanak in Glendale — and be sure to do the final steps of prep yourself 2016-01-15T05:00:00Z GMT15:48 44 min: Sterling embarks on a rococo run down the left. England v France: international friendly – as it happened 2015-11-17T05:00:00Z Olivia said she did Madonna proud, and Bruno said she looked like a rococo lampshade on wheels. 'Dancing With the Stars' recap: Bindi, Andy, Tamar are perfect; Paula is toast 2015-10-20T04:00:00Z But the hosts are soon coming back at the visitors, Silva dribbling into the box from the left, a burst of rococo beauty. Manchester City v Leicester City: Premier League – live! 2016-02-06T05:00:00Z Sorkin wished to paint a more rococo portrait of the Apple pioneer. 'Steve Jobs' is a new kind of biopic — and not entirely true 2015-10-11T04:00:00Z CALDEN, Germany — This German town renowned for its rococo palace threw open its doors to arriving waves of refugees. A refugee riot puts a German town on edge 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The pictures have a light, rococo palette and the faces are individualised without being those of individuals. From princes to paupers: how Goya’s portraits tell the story of Spain 2015-09-26T04:00:00Z Or maybe, like cubism, art deco, and rococo, the greatest artistic movements are meant to explode in a burst of creativity and then burn out fast, leaving the world with truth, beauty, and Frogmechs. Remembering the lost art of the graphics card box 2015-09-09T04:00:00Z The contrast between the building’s rococo exterior and its garage-sale interior was startling. The Actual Hollister 2015-07-20T04:00:00Z But despite his rococo extravagances, Howard Hughes was a master businessman, particularly skilled in the art of avoiding taxes. How A Howard Hughes Tax Dodge Landed In Bill Ackman's Portfolio 2015-05-06T04:00:00Z Hundreds of craftsmen were involved in restoring Uppark, and forgotten skills such rococo plasterwork modelling were rediscovered in the process. What now for Clandon Park House? The fate of fire-hit stately homes - BBC News 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z In that battle a Coxey’s Army of Mexican irregulars defeated well-organized French forces of Napoleon III and postponed for a year the imposition of rococo Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. This is What Happened on the First Cinco de Mayo 2015-05-05T04:00:00Z Gorgeously painted medieval, Baroque, and rococo buildings cluster on hilly cobblestone streets that lead to picturesque market squares. Happy Ugly Feet 2015-03-16T04:00:00Z Designed by William Lawrence Bottomley, the building features wide balconies, rococo ironwork and a private driveway, topped with a bronze crown. After Years of Frostiness, a Selective Co-op Tries a Friendlier Facade 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z He met a reporter on a recent weekday morning in his office, which is in the base of the lighthouse building, full of rococo furniture and a bust of George Washington. Pagan High Priest Finds Few Believers Inside City Hall 2014-07-28T04:00:00Z By the time The Bravest Man in the Universe came out, "soul" seemed an almost discredited notion in the new world of blingy over-production and rococo vocal mannerisms. Bobby Womack, gospel-soaked baritone and the very last of the Soul Men 2014-06-28T04:00:00Z In addition to the show’s dramatic shifts in scale, “American Metal” features work that hops between various “isms”: rococo, Art Nouveau, automotive design, rocket imagery and pop art. The two shows Corcoran is exhibiting before it goes under the knife We’d tease apart his rather rococo approach to sentences for meaning and argue over his conclusions, but it was a single maypole that five men – four brothers and a father – pivoted around. Media Decoder : Minneapolis Newspaper Gets a New Life, but I Remember the Old One 2014-04-02T15:25:17Z In the courtyard formed by the outstretched wings of the building, he constructed the Crystal Room, a glass-clad pavilion that epitomized the sparkling, rococo, fairyland ambience of the LeRoy era, which ended in 2010. Building Blocks: Freshly Spruced, Tavern on the Green Is Set to Reopen This Month 2014-02-05T17:32:36Z Russian students are steeped in the rococo vocabulary of Pushkin. The SATS Should Bring Back Analogies 2013-10-16T09:45:22Z Or so I’m told by a former CIA colleague, and one of the best-informed North Korean watchers around. ’s Supreme Leader Kim Jong Un, like his father and his grandfather, exists in a rococo fantasy. Viewpoint: How Gaddafi and Saddam Might Have Shaped North Korea's Thinking 2013-04-06T00:50:23Z There were welcoming ceremonies, handshakes in front of cameras and tête-à-têtes on rococo chairs. Iran Has Rosy View of Unrest in Syria 2012-12-10T00:29:09Z She found her in a strange rococo room that opened on a garden bordered by the Regent’s Canal; here amid candles and mirrors she was sitting in conversation with her housekeeper. The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett 2012-04-26T02:00:17.327Z The first baronet had failed to establish his right to the three chevronels originally borne by that great family and had been granted arms that accorded better with the rococo taste of his period. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z The interior was not less rococo than the exterior, although remaining in a somewhat better state of preservation. One of Cleopatra's Nights and Other Fantastic Romances One of Cleopatra's Nights?Clarimonde?Arria Marcella?The Mummy's Foot?Omphale: a Rococo Story?King Candaules 2012-04-08T02:00:23.693Z A dry soulless learning killed the creative power, and in every branch, art, music, and literature, the artificial rococo flourished. Heroic Spain 2012-03-26T02:00:38.797Z This new-born word is "rococo," and appears to me to be applied by the young and innovating to everything which bears the stamp of the taste, principles, or feelings of time past. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z Where there is garden space it is, as like as not, devoted to some shocking attempt at grandiose rococo work. England 2012-02-09T03:00:12.957Z A single, decrepit rococo set has to serve for all three acts. Greedy Matron Frolics, Cavalier Swaggers, Mozart: London Stage 2012-02-03T01:36:08Z He asked to be buried beside them here, and 11 markers show where they rest on the same terrace of the rococo palace. Potsdam Journal: Germany Marks Frederick the Great?s 300th Birthday 2012-01-24T22:00:54Z A flower that belonged less to nature than to drawing-rooms, to rococo salons and the opera loges of eighteen forty, and not at all to the present in the United States. San Crist?bal de la Habana 2012-01-01T03:00:08.773Z "Have you heard l'Abb� Cœur?" was a question asked me before I had been here a week, by one who would not for worlds have been accounted rococo. Paris and the Parisians in 1835 (Vol. 1 of 2) 2012-02-29T03:00:23.930Z In his treatment of subject, Gu�rin attempted to realize rococo graces of conception, the liveliness of which was lost in the strenuous effort to be correct. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" 2011-12-16T03:00:12.320Z It was considered rococo to admire the old Italian classics. The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First 2011-12-12T03:00:27.507Z But its mission is to shake to their foundations the present conceptions of “health” and “culture,” and erect hatred and scorn in the place of this rococo mass of ideas. Thoughts Out of Season (Part II) 2011-12-07T03:00:18.847Z Such is the substance of this exquisite song with its chivalrous melody, surrounded by rococo embellishments that seem as appropriate to the pretty page as are his Louis Quinze slippers and point-lace ruffs. Stars of the Opera 2011-11-29T03:00:15.563Z Established by , Albany Division, the 50-tent encampment sits in a park in the shadow of the rococo Romanesque State Capitol. Gotham: A Seeming Loss by Cuomo to Occupy Wall Street Group 2011-11-01T02:07:42Z The somewhat rococo elegance of the establishment suggested it must have been constructed about the middle of the last century, and had done service as a city residence. The Galley Slave's Ring or The Family of Lebrenn. A Tale of The French Revolution of 1848 2011-08-29T02:01:02.680Z The internal decorations of the Kurhaus were too hideous for words; but it stood charmingly among shady groves, lakes and fountains, and there were 350 newspapers in the huge rococo reading-room. A New Medley of Memories 2011-07-12T02:00:37.147Z It is otherwise when a rich lady's dressing-table in baroque or rococo is decorated with such scenes. The Influence of the Bible on Civilisation 2011-07-06T02:00:51.053Z A rococo parure of rubies and diamonds lay gleaming upon the yellowish-white satin inside the case. A Noble Name or D?nninghausen 2011-07-04T02:00:22.783Z The other high walls were panelled with mirrors that reflected a dozen times the hanging chandeliers, the rococo gilded curves of carving, the moving heads of the visitors already at the tables. The Disturbing Charm 2011-06-17T02:00:21.077Z The Danish court and the diplomatic corps were splendid, decorations glittered, and the white and gold rococo setting of the concert room was worthy of it all. Ten Years Near the German Frontier A Retrospect and a Warning 2011-06-16T02:00:15.297Z Then, after a while, the little rococo bedroom in the Ritz-Carlton was empty save for a young man asleep on the bed, holding in his clenched hand a white hibiscus blossom. The Slayer Of souls 2011-06-01T02:00:26.487Z Chippendale was a great frame maker, but he not only had recourse to composition, but his designs were often extravagantly rococo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 7 "Fox, George" to "France" 2011-05-15T02:00:07.897Z Surmounting the top of it is a rococo cowboy upon a pony of the same extraction. Abroad at Home American Ramblings, Observations, and Adventures of Julian Street 2011-04-27T02:00:23.800Z The largest church is the Merced, a fine building in the rococo style, with handsome marble altars and some good pictures. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z Fogelberg worked hard at Stockholm for many years, although his instinct for severe beauty rebelled against the somewhat rococo quality of the art then prevalent in the city. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" 2011-04-03T02:00:20.883Z It was a spacious, clumsy structure with several court-yards, one portion with pointed Gothic archways was ancient, irregular and picturesque, another part was of a later rococo style with conventional decoration. 'Gloria Victis!' A Romance 2011-03-26T02:00:13.597Z It was a gorgeous studio, with a coved ceiling painted in fresco and a rococo plaster cornice, the walls hung with old tapestry, eastern stuffs and other "properties." Our Own Set A Novel 2011-03-26T02:00:12.923Z "Strange idea to hang this monster in your pretty rococo nest!" cried Erwin, growing more and more embarrassed, and abruptly changing the conversation from Felix to the Rembrandt negress. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z As for the modern town, the churches are rococo and ugly, while the most imposing building is the workhouse, capable of accommodating a thousand inmates. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The rococo sentiment of the faded sketch contrasted strangely with the old lady's dignified decrepitude and poetically softened charm. Countess Erika's Apprenticeship 2011-03-10T03:00:46.973Z They quiz me tremendously about my "rococo" taste in equipage, but I turn off the joke by telling them that I'm expecting my cattle and my "traps" from London next week. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z At a later date the decoration consists principally of flowers issuing from cornucopiæ and rococo ornaments; this sort of style is called in France “à la corne.” The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods 2011-02-28T03:00:33.843Z She seems less a real country than a theatre, where rococo dukes, cavaliers, and ladies curl their hair and powder their cheeks. A Short History of Italy (476-1900) 2011-02-24T03:01:00.630Z This is true in this case, where its great size, and plentifully besprinkled rococo ornament, and unpleasantly dull and dingy "pipes" are of no �sthetic value whatever. The Cathedrals of Southern France 2011-02-10T03:00:54.597Z The room was large and well furnished, but the taste was severe, for the style called rococo was not yet introduced. Dumas' Paris 2011-02-02T03:00:23.057Z There was nothing classical nor rococo about it; it was all odd, novel, and overwhelmingly graceful. Garrick's Pupil 2011-01-22T03:00:14.780Z Table services decorated in polychrome, with branches of roses, sometimes in green camaïeu; delicate wicker baskets, watch stands, &c., were produced; they were painted with Chinese figures, rococo scrolls, and other ornaments. The Collector's Handbook to Keramics of the Renaissance and Modern Periods 2011-02-28T03:00:33.843Z I, however, remained true to my first love and refused to be satisfied with any thing but a veritable rococo watch, for that, I maintained, united the useful and the beautiful. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z It was a perfect tragi-comedy; a mixture of the terrible, the risible, the ominous, the rococo. Romantic Spain A Record of Personal Experiences (Vol. I) 2010-12-27T03:00:17.990Z His didactic poems are composed in a wonderfully rococo style, and swarm with misplaced Latinities. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 8 "Dubner" to "Dyeing" 2010-12-26T03:00:17.840Z Goldman's rococo PR prince" by one New York newspaper, Van Praag dismissed inaccurate predictions of a $100m bonus for Goldman's boss by saying: "There's speculation and there is stupidity. Tough talkers come to the fore after a year of thrills and spills 2010-12-26T00:04:07Z At the end of the night, I was thrown clear and out on the street, dazed and thinking about the rococo miracle that is a daily paper. The Media Equation: A Vanishing Journalistic Divide 2010-10-11T00:40:00Z I was effectually cured of my passion for antiquities, and hated the sound of the word rococo. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z “I mean it is so rococo, wonderful, Hindu-esque, with the flower petals, the girls holding the decorative parasols — everything but the elephants.” Indian Church?s Ascension Day Parade Makes Its Colorful Annual Appearance 2010-08-16T23:45:00Z Michael A. Steele of Wilkes University in Pennsylvania and his colleagues have studied the squirrels’ hoarding behavior, which turns out to be remarkably calculated and rococo. Basics: Nut? What Nut? The Squirrel Outwits to Survive 2010-07-05T21:25:00Z Nobody is suggesting that the Web should somehow accommodate the rococo glories of The New York Observer’s headlines in that paper’s prime. The Media Equation: Taylor Momsen Did Not Write This Headline 2010-05-16T23:10:00Z The room was a tatterdemalion rococo barbarized more completely by gothic embellishments that nevertheless gave it the atmosphere of the fantasts with whom Michael had identified it. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Being permitted to reach land in safety, I prepared to eclipse Fan's ring and Mary's necklace with my rich and rare rococo watch. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z Shall I buy you Mademoiselle de Maupin, so that all her rococo soul may dance with gilded limbs across your vision? Sinister Street, vol. 1 The chest of drawers, a piece of rococo furniture, had metal handles to each drawer. The Patriot Piccolo Mondo Antico A new fireplace, and a mantel of a dainty cabinet-like design, replaced the former streaked framework of marble that had enshrined a great rococo grate. An Engagement of Convenience A Novel There were hundreds of daffodils blooming in the garden round Ararat House; and April bringing an unexpected halcyon was the very April of the poets whose verses haunted that great rococo room. Sinister Street, vol. 2 Several slender tawny greyhounds came bounding toward them and completed the illusion that they were entering a banqueting hall of the rococo times. The Children of the World He saw the honest, truthful eyes glisten—at least no rococo monarch could cause them to be made vile!—he knew that his words had satisfied her. In the Day of Adversity As architect to Louis XV. from 1755 he necessarily did much in the rococo manner, although it would seem that he conformed to fashion rather than to artistic conviction. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" Upon the original Gothic stone-work and tracery of the chapel, which was very old, had been introduced rococo work in mahogany and brass, angels and trumpets and scrolls. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance "Under the Hill" is a delightful experiment in a rococo style of literature, and it would be difficult to praise sufficiently the rhythm and metrical adroitness of the two poems in the Savoy Magazine. Aubrey Beardsley On the dainty table with gilded rococo feet, he had found his traveling satchel, and mechanically began to unpack the contents. The Children of the World Two of these rooms still remain, and are frightful examples of the Spanish rococo style. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" The upper part of the case is decorated with elaborately carved and gilt rococo motifs. The Borghesi Astronomical Clock in the Museum of History and Technology Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Paper 35, the Smithsonian Institution United States National Museum Bulletin 240 Amid the rococo surroundings among which he moved, he was himself a singular example of the power of art to extract from bizarre and unpromising material somewhat at least of pure and lasting fruit. The Little Schoolmaster Mark A Spiritual Romance A really good rococo design, speaking of an artistic past, embossed and picked out in grey, decorated the whitewashed walls. Fragments of an Autobiography Among the principal buildings of Carlsbad are the Catholic parish church, built in 1732-1736 in rococo style; the gorgeous Russian church, finished in 1897; the English church; and a handsome synagogue. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" The Wellington Hotel was a rococo haven for such refugees from the modern social choler, and its doors flew open and offered them a family rate, excellent cuisine, quarantine. Just Around the Corner Romance en casserole The furniture is rococo, and almost too delicate for domestic use. Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia Hem!" she observed critically, as her eyes roamed over the spacious splendor of the place; "quite an epitome of the whole rococo period; done, too, with a French grace and a German thoroughness. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 15 The taxi swept on down the Hampstead Road until it turned off on the right to Camden Town, whose curious rococo squares mildewed and queerly ornamented seemed the abode of a fantastic depression. Carnival The subject is as romantic as any chosen by Thomas Moore; but there is nothing now that appears rococo in Lermontov’s work. An Outline of Russian Literature An immense mirror in a gilt frame, lavishly rococo, rested on the mantel of carved white marble. Ewing\\'s Lady The high frescoed ceiling arched over a floor so highly polished that it seemed to reflect the faded pastels set, in rococo borders, in the walls and constituting the distinction of the place. The Sacred Fount Our raw iron can compete with the English, and there would be—" "Your ideas are rococo; they belong to the last century. Black Diamonds Besides, Wycherley was decidedly rococo in all his tastes and predilections. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands In the first phase of this the Minoan civilization attains its acme, and the succeeding style already shows much that may be described as rococo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" German architecture in time, though not so much with respect to churches, even went so far as to imitate the rococo and bizarre ornamentation fathered and named by the Louis of France. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine We are sadly behind the world,—rococo"—shrugging her shoulders pathetically—"to the last degree. Rossmoyne All things which bore the stamp of the principles and sentiments of former generations were branded as rococo. Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century His mirrors, which were often in the Chinese taste or extravagantly rococo, are remarkable and characteristic. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" Strauss, after a delightful overture in the rococo manner of Grétry, contributes some fascinating dance measures, a minuetto, a polonaise, a gavotte, and a march. Ivory Apes and Peacocks It is on the Rhine, too, that one comes upon occasional examples of rococo architectural decoration, a species which sounds as though it might originally have been Italian, but which was originally French. The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine On the terrace of Casa Guidi orange trees and camellias bloomed, and the salons with their “rococo chairs, spring sofas, carved bookcases, and satin from Cardinals’ beds,” were a picturesque haunt. The Brownings Their Life and Art They sat down on the rococo settee to talk, Leslie, quick of eye, wondering what had happened to give Estelle that unusual air, an air of–no, it was indefinable. Aurora the Magnificent It is but a rococo structure of the usual Italian type, and its painted series of portraits of past bishops is by no means an uncommon complement of cathedral churches in the South. The Naples Riviera Naturally, it is good to get away from the saccharine and the rococo, but vulgarity is always vulgarity and true art is never vulgar. Ivory Apes and Peacocks As for the flowers–Jacqueline wanted to pluck them all, to wreathe the wondering fawns, as ladies with picture hats do in the old frivolous rococo fantasies. The Missourian The treasury also contains some curious rococo painted vestments, apparently in water-colour on silk. The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia To the right is a rambling building, ornate and attractive, with low, decorated domes and outflung and rococo wings. Westward with the Prince of Wales Such was quite its effect, with the aid of his picture—an evocation of the quaint, of the humblest rococo, of a Venetian interior in the true old note. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II If, in Poe, there is much "rant and rococo," Whitman is mostly yawping and yodling. Ivory Apes and Peacocks The door and window would be in a rather belated taste, but the beautiful is never out of date, and black paint and small panes might be found rococo in their old-fashionedness now. The Daughter of the Storage And Other Things in Prose and Verse The central belfry, albeit of a base, though pretentious, rococo design, follows no accepted style, but adds imposingly to the general outline. The Cathedrals of Northern France With its tritons sunk in slumber, And its fountains also sleeping, Mildewed, lovely, and rococo, Lo ... The Lonely Way—Intermezzo—Countess Mizzie Three Plays He had looked about at the rococo elegance as if there were fifty things it didn't give her, so that he suggested with urgency the most absent. The Wings of the Dove, Volume II All this rococo ware simply emphasizes her charm. 'Charge It' Keeping Up With Harry Though less picturesque and fantastic, the royal palace at Queluz, between Lisbon and Cintra, is another really pleasing example of the more sober rococo. Portuguese Architecture It had not only the charm of the rococo, the pathos of a bygone fashion, but it was of the greatest use. Imaginary Interviews Upon a large pier-table, in the rococo style, between the windows and opposite the throne, stands a great crucifix of ivory and ebony, between two candlesticks. Ave Roma Immortalis, Vol. 2 Studies from the Chronicles of Rome The body and cover were originally quite plain, the embossing and chasing with symmetrical rococo decoration being added later, probably about 1740. All About Coffee Most of them, he says, remained unchanged, and busied themselves with the same things as formerly; they remained stationary, were old-fashioned, rococo—which now and then produced a ludicrous effect. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete With the earlier stalls at Santa Cruz and at Funchal, and the later at Evora, these are almost the only ones left which have not been replaced by rococo extravagances. Portuguese Architecture Cheverny, built in 1634, is of a much later date than the other royal residences of this part of France; it belongs to the end of the Renaissance and has a touch of the rococo. A Little Tour of France The prototype of the German salon naturally was the salon of the rococo period. Jewish Literature and Other Essays But in itself it seems to me a little too much of a tour de force, and its kind a little rococo. A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century The word suggests much the same order of ideas as rococo. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon" Everything else has been altered, the inside being covered with elaborate rococo painted and gilt plaster-work, and the outside disfigured by shapeless rococo windows. Portuguese Architecture A simple modern washstand, of grey painted wood with light green borders, had been placed just under an oval rococo mirror, and formed a striking contrast to these neglected antiquities. Major Frank At times he would distend himself with pneumatic vestments in the rococo vein. Tales of Space and Time It was in the seventeenth century that Ma�ara built his church, and consequently rococo holds sway with all its fantasies. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Only later, in new tool types, did they imitate the rococo flourish of their European predecessors. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 When he found himself again on the street, he began to curse mentally, looking at the swelling balconies of the rococo mansion. The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan You have an odd medley here, President—a little rococo, I am afraid. Vera or, The Nihilists What a very little exaggeration could make of this style may be seen in the productions of the era of his successor, and which the Italians stigmatised by the term rococo. Rambles of an Archaeologist Among Old Books and in Old Places Being Papers on Art, in Relation to Archaeology, Painting, Art-Decoration, and Art-Manufacture The worship of the Spaniards is sombre, full-blooded, a thing of dark rich colours; it requires the heaviness of incense and that overloading of rococo decoration. The Land of The Blessed Virgin; Sketches and Impressions in Andalusia Perhaps it was to appeal to the flood of newly arrived American craftsmen who might find in the rococo something reminiscent of the older tools they had known in Europe. Woodworking Tools 1600-1900 One hardly knew where the rococo began or the mediaeval left off. Vixen, Volume I. And yet this strange, fantastic, rococo district, if beyond the pale of Christianity, is far from being without the pale of fashion. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851 If one wished to be rococo, why not be altogether so? The Girl and The Bill An American Story of Mystery, Romance and Adventure Stafforth's house was a fine stone building decorated with rococo masks. A German Pompadour Being the Extraordinary History of Wilhelmine van Grävenitz, Landhofmeisterin of Wirtemberg It had an impassioned green carpet, a bedspring which scarcely sagged at all, a gas-range, and at least a dozen vases with rococo handles and blobs of gilt. The Job An American Novel The widow is somewhat rococo; an old-fashioned jewel kept in cotton-wool, and brought out on occasions to shine with a factitious brilliancy, like old Dutch garnets backed with tinfoil; but she is still pretty. Vixen, Volume I. For nine years the rococo hall in the Auffenberg home had been closed to festive celebrations of every kind. The Goose Man She had found something depressing in the rococo civilization of Southern California. Tutors' Lane Though the music was the immortal “Passion” of Bach, my eyes were travelling all the while from one piece of faded rococo work and decoration. Pickwickian Studies I stitched boys' pants in a Polish sweatshop, and lived for two days in New York's most rococo hotel. Americans All Stories of American Life of To-Day Finished in the most exuberant rococo style, it is an edifice from which all architectural or religious inspiration is conspicuously absent. Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Under it, the building entrance was gilded and carved into fantastic rococo shapes. Supermind Not but that it is pretty always,—I know nothing more so,—but for a ball-dress—terribly rococo. Molly Bawn And now, when forcing seasons bud With prophet, hero, saint, and quack, When creeds and fashions heat the blood, And transcendental tonguelets clack, Sweet Virtue's lyre we hardly know, And think her odes quite rococo. Ionica 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 But its elephantine woodwork repelled her, for she had grown up amid the rococo exuberances of Paris apartments. On the Stairs It is the first part of the doing away with rococo sentimentalisms, mediæval tatters, and all wretched and ragged remainders and reminders of states of society which have nothing in common with our present needs. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Our ancestors, to do them justice, did not think them casual or commonplace; they thought them, if not ridiculous, at least rococo. A Short History of England The style of writing was inflated and bombastic, and that of art was what is termed “rococo.” Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Let me inform you, my young sirs, that this quaint, old-fashioned music, with its faint odor of the rococo, is of more satisfying musical value than all your modern gymnasiums. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques It is not enough that she should be armed with strong hands, planted on large feet, and decorated in the German's favorite rococo manner of abounding breasts, to gratify his cyclopean aspirations. Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life Poetry, as it exists for us, is a pretty rococo fancy; to the worshippers and framers of myths it was a truth of tremendous significance. The Continental Monthly , Vol. 2 No. 5, November 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy They were infatuated with 'the rococo toy of Italy.' Critical Miscellanies, Vol. 1, Essay 5, Emerson The only noteworthy church was that in front of us, with its picturesque but un-Russian rococo plaster decoration on red brick, crowned by genuine Russian domes and crosses of elaborately beautiful patterns. Russian Rambles Both of these qualities are rococo and superficial rather than essential and distinctive in their style. Wine, Women, and Song Mediaeval Latin Students' songs; Now first translated into English verse "None of their money goes to gild rococo coronets." The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin It is the rococo school of behaviour, the flamboyant gentleman, the gargoyle life. Certain Personal Matters What has Mr. Bland to tell us of all the welter of loan-mongering, rococo constitution-tinkering, Confucianism, and genuine if at times misdirected philanthropy, which is now seething in the Chinese melting-pot? Political and Literary essays, 1908-1913 He is considerably farther away from the rococo. French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture "What so vile as a cheap, rococo aristocracy—growing up in idleness, too noble to be restrained, with every brutal passion broad blown as flush as May?" A Man for the Ages A Story of the Builders of Democracy In vain I glanced round, in order to reassure myself, at the stained-glass windows, now illumined by September starlight, at the beautiful carving of the choir-stalls, at the ugly rococo screen. The Ghost A Modern Fantasy But commonly, as I have proved again and again, the slightest lapse into rococo spelling is sufficient to secure the rejection of a manuscript without further ado. Certain Personal Matters And from a corner a little rococo lady peered coquettishly at the gray image of an Egyptian sphinx. The House of the Vampire Some of it, however, appeared to them in rococo style, and so they gradually rebuilt. The Pianoforte Sonata Its Origin and Development At the time of Milton's visit Italian letters and arts sloped midway in their descent from the Renaissance to the hideous but humorous rococo so graphically described by Vernon Lee. Life of John Milton But they absolutely miscalculated and misconceived him, treating him as merely an amusing charlatan, whose rococo oratory and fantastic tricks afforded a welcome relief from the dulness of ordinary politics. Prime Ministers and Some Others A Book of Reminiscences Above the choir, however, the inner ceiling gave way, thereby partially damaging the upper part of the rococo altar of stone which was without any particular artistic value. New York Times Current History: The European War from the Beginning to March 1915, Vol 1, No. 2 Who Began the War, and Why? The book abounds in nocturnes, arabesques, masquerades, bagatelles, rococo pastorals. A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century The sort of florid rococo chivalry that would have "vindicated his wife's honor" by knocking little Alec down was an inconceivable thing to him. The Real Adventure The real sin of the Castle regime is that it is a sham, a rococo, a despotism painted to look like representative government. The Open Secret of Ireland He has evidently more to do; but there is a fashion in ghosts as in other things, and that reminds me our ghost, from all we hear of it, is decidedly rococo. Cecilia de Noël One end rose into a rococo tower, lit then with the curious kind of clearness produced by a half-moon's light. The Young Seigneur Or, Nation-Making Smilingly protesting, yet touched by the undisguised sincerity of his welcome, he suffered himself to be led into the elevator—a dainty white and rose rococo affair. The Younger Set The decline came when good taste was lost in the craze for rococo. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today "Even human faces divine are quite rococo with me," Mrs. Browning wrote to a friend. Life of Robert Browning And something of this rococo relish may no doubt, with a little good will and sympathy, be detected in her books. The English Novel Alas that the interior of this Gothic temple of Genoa should abound in the abomination of rococo restoration! Italian Journeys So they took the rose-tinted rococo elevator; Austin went away to his own quarters, and Selwyn tapped at Nina's boudoir. The Younger Set He is often criticized for his excessive rococo taste as displayed in the plates of the "Gentleman's and Cabinet-maker's Director," and in some of his finished work. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today In architecture the rococo style is an example of this excess. The Practice and Science of Drawing "You're a very rococo sort of goddess, you know, Kitty!" said Ashe. The Marriage of William Ashe After an apologetic little preamble, he would sit down and play these rococo bits of trailing sound with fingers dipped in lightning, fingers that flashed over the keys in perfect evenness and with perfect sureness. Edward MacDowell The oil-paintings in the rococo frames represented landscapes, fruit pieces, and game; there was not a portrait among them. The Nameless Castle If one wishes to use Louis XV furniture it is better to choose the simpler and more beautiful designs rather than the over-elaborate rococo. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Then his eyes wandered off to the cornice of the wall, whose florid rococo upholstery won his sincere approval. Ilka on the Hill-Top and Other Stories Pushing aside the leathern curtain over the door, she found herself in a great rococo nave, which blazed with lights and decorations. The Marriage of William Ashe From it he took the luncheon card and returned to where she was sitting at a rococo table. The Common Law Sometimes they look strangely effeminate, like some rococo burlesque of the ringlets of an Early Victorian woman. The New Jerusalem His mirror frames were very elaborately carved, and in his rococo period were fairly fantastic with dripping water, Chinese pagodas, rocks, birds with long beaks, and figures. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today A marriage is taking place in the sacristy of a rococo church in Madrid. Promenades of an Impressionist A little black mitten lay upon a chair; I picked it up—and would have pressed it to my lips, if such an action had not been deplorably rococo. The Cross of Berny Half the world is stucco, the rest rococo. The Tracer of Lost Persons Emerson's contempt for travel and for the "rococo toy," Italy, is too well known to need citation. Emerson and Other Essays The natural consequence of the period of excessive rococo with its superabundance of curves and ornament, was that, during the last years of Louis's reign, the reaction slowly began to make itself felt. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today The walls are covered with faded Cordova leather hangings figured in gold and dull colours, and a magnificent rococo screen separates the sacristy from the middle aisle. Promenades of an Impressionist Then he tries gestures, and becomes flamboyant, rococo. The Art of the Moving Picture We are expecting our books by an early vessel, and are about to be very busy, building up a rococo bookcase of carved angels and demons. The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) We spun up the Riverside Drive, past rows of rococo apartment houses, along the Lafayette Boulevard and through Yonkers. The "Goldfish" There are a few examples in existence of carving in almost as high relief as that of Grinling Gibbons, swags, etc., and in his most rococo period his carving was very elaborate. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today His rococo pictures, his Oriental work set Paris ablaze. Promenades of an Impressionist Who does not know that Fifth Avenue is the most rococo boulevard in the world, and that it drinks its afternoon tea from etched, thin-stemmed glasses? Every Soul Hath Its Song I dare say you will think I have given too much importance to the rococo verses you had the goodness to speak of; but I have a horror of being disinterred, there's the truth! The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1 of 2) All that I had hitherto seen seemed to me the awkward effort of a Jesuitical art, a rococo mixture of silly pomp, charlatanism, and caricature. Recollections of My Youth Selfishness, pleasure, and low ideals, were the order of court life, and paved the way for the debased taste for rococo ornament which was one marked phase of the style of Louis XV. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today It was this characteristic, unless I err, the lack of which in "Prince Otto" gives it a certain rococo air: he was consciously fooling in it, and felt the need of a solidly mundane footing. Masters of the English Novel A Study of Principles and Personalities There is one fifty-six-story rococo castle, built from the five-and-ten-cent-store earnings of a merchant prince, that shoots upward with the beautiful rush of a Roman candle. The Vertical City And with the newly awakening delight in the rococo the modern ear is again becoming perceptibly keener as regards the nuances of dance rhythms. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes His materials may be rococo, but not his use of them. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) Unfortunately it is this rococo style which is meant by many people when they speak of the style of Louis XV. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today One of these, with a display of shell-fish grouped about a miniature fountain in its window, confronted him ere long and he entered a rococo interior of mirrored walls. Port O' Gold A History-Romance of the San Francisco Argonauts Ask who all the men in the rococo frames are?—which of them, or whether any, is Mr. Huntley? Nancy The words "rococo" and "pigtail" at first applied only to the plastic arts; we are, however, gradually becoming accustomed to employ them to designate the whole period of culture. The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 08 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. in Twenty Volumes It remains, however, an episode; the rococo romancers did not last. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) The rococo of Chippendale is coarsened, his Chinese style loses its fine, if eccentric, distinction, and the inlay of Hepplewhite and Sheraton is another example of spoiling a beautiful thing. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Thus the massiveness and grandeur of the best Louis Quatorze meubles de luxe, became, in its later development, too ornate and effeminate, with an elaboration of enrichment, culminating in the rococo style of Louis Quinze. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Used with discretion it may be one of the subtlest ornaments of style, and even when fulfilling no particular purpose is capable of imparting a luxuriant and somewhat rococo richness to the verse. Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama A Literary Inquiry, with Special Reference to the Pre-Restoration Stage in England Notice the image presented by this sentence from Henry James: "Her dress was dark and rich; she had pearls around her neck and an old rococo fan in her hand." Composition-Rhetoric He likes the rococo and the Victorian, ornament without any obvious utility, grace without any busy function. Contemporary American Novelists (1900-1920) It was not until the latter part of Chippendale's life that he gave up his love of rococo curves and scrolls, dripping water effects, and his Chinese and Gothic styles. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today Some of these are enriched with plaques of Sêvres porcelain, which treatment is better adapted to the more jewel-like mounting of this time than to the rococo style in vogue during the preceding reign. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Then came a rococo and affected age, neat, conceited, and trim; yet in the middle of that stood out a great rugged figure like Johnson, full to the brim of impassioned force. The Silent Isle If the meaning of rococo is unknown to you, the image which you form will not be exactly the one that Mr. James had in mind. Composition-Rhetoric There are the graceful, classic types of the days of the Georges; the earlier ornate, rococo forms; and the yet earlier massive styles of the time of Queen Anne and long before. Virginia: the Old Dominion It is not a bow-knot and a rococo curve or two that will turn a modern room, fresh from the builder's hands, into a Louis XV drawing-room. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today From such a comparison it will be seen that in the progress from the rococo of Chippendale to the more severe lines of Sheraton, Hepplewhite forms a connecting link between the two. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time The style of the oration may strike us as rococo now, but the accent of praise and appreciation is surely genuine. The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti If your attention is directed to the fan, you may recall the word rococo, but not the image represented by it. Composition-Rhetoric Sylvia began to plan out a comparison of dress with architecture, bringing out the insistent tendency in both to the rococo, to the burying of structural lines in ornamentation. The Bent Twig A lady whose dining-room was furnished in Sheraton furniture one day saw two elaborate rococo Louis XV console tables which she instantly bought to add to it. Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today In its place came a revival of the Louis Quinze scrolls and curves, but with less character and restraint, until the style we know as "baroque," 19 or debased "rococo," came in. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time Brixtonian rococo outwardly," I said, "as far as I can judge; but very snug inside. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, August 15, 1917 Two letters half rubbed out were there, and round About them gay rococo flowers wound And tossed a spray of roses to the clamp. Men, Women and Ghosts "In life there are illusions of good and evil, but"—his voice trailed away to a murmur in which the words "vieux jeu" and "rococo" were faintly audible. Enoch Soames: a memory of the eighteen-nineties And we got a lovely rococo frame to close up; when it is open it looks as if Mother were looking out of the window. A Young Girl's Diary In other countries the rococo taste had also taken hold. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time "Even human faces divine are quite `rococo' with me," Mrs. Browning wrote to a friend. Life of Robert Browning You are on our side, but you are not of the Germans with their hankerings for a rococo Empire. Greenmantle "If I ask you about some of the ladies it can't be then that I may hope, as such a specimen of the rococo, to please them." The Ambassadors There must, I feel sure, be a reason for its use in this city; American land-lords rarely spend money without a purpose; perhaps they find that rococo detail draws business and inspires confidence! The Ways of Men The excellent designs of the Adams and their school, which obtained early in the century, had been supplanted, and a meaningless rococo style succeeded the heavy imitations of French pseudo-classic furniture. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time If she had not been so decent her references would have seemed to carry one back to the queer rococo Venice of Casanova. The Aspern Papers In this, as in Hamlet, there are the rococo excrescences—yourselves, let us say. The Innocence of Father Brown On the contrary they adore—we all adore here—the rococo, and where is there a better setting for it than the whole thing, the pavilion and the garden, together? The Ambassadors It is still lotus-eating, only you sit down at table, and the lotuses are served up on rococo china. Roderick Hudson At first a jeweller's technical term, it came later, like "rococo," to be used to describe the kind of ornament which prevailed in design of the nineteenth century, after the disappearance of the classic. Illustrated History of Furniture From the Earliest to the Present Time A very small man, very well-dressed, and a very large man, very badly dressed, wearing a kind of curious, rococo straw hat. Captivating Mary Carstairs Above the sofa is a mirror with a heavily gilt rococo frame. The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I They're rather creditable; but," Austin added, turning with a laugh to his brother, "the mother will fidget, you know, and the somewhat--let us say rococo style of architecture has got on her nerves. Viviette The spires and porticos, the colonnades and entrances are replete with rococo decorations. The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition Once a flavor of the rococo hung about it; now it breathes and moves. The Line of Love Dizain des Mariages You know the way he had when a thing pleased him, especially a thing that had some relish of the quaint or rococo. Questionable Shapes He had forgotten the glass; the little rococo mirror, with an eagle hovering over the top of the frame, which hung above the old-fashioned chiffonier. Charlotte's Inheritance A small palace, also rococo, peeped out behind a clump of bushy oaks. Dream Tales and Prose Poems Hem!" she observed, critically, as her eyes roamed over the spacious spendor of the place, "quite an epitome of the whole rococo period; done, too, with a French grace and a German thoroughness. With the Procession This was really an exquisite example of the /rococo/ style, a rotunda as it were of pale mirrors framed with superb gilded carvings. The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4 Then I remembered that St. Barnabé was not much more than a hundred years old, and smiled at the incongruous association of mediaeval superstitions with that cheerful little piece of eighteenth-century rococo. The King in Yellow There is nothing too rococo for the peripatetic vender in these foreign watering-places. Manners and Social Usages When he wrote, he was rococo, like so many Catalans. Youth and Egolatry Or, if the classics bore you, Watteau and the rococo pertness of the Grand Monarch. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago Of circular shape and Louis XV style, it was surrounded by mirrors in /rococo/ frames, extremely rich, and most exquisitely carved. The Three Cities Trilogy: Rome, Volume 4 The man who had seen God, the man who lived in God, seemed sometimes to Christophe to have had an insipid and sugared religion, a Jesuitical style, rococo. Jean-Christophe, Volume I In Germany, where they dance for dancing's sake, the quadrille was long ago voted rococo and stiff. Manners and Social Usages Those who, in the old days before the Germans began their career of wholesale robbery and murder, used to hear Mozart's operas in the little rococo Residenz-Theater in Munich, will enjoy reminiscently these stanzas. The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century But in the room drinking tea she had the effect of a too startling close-up—a rococo siren cramped for space. A Thousand and One Afternoons in Chicago They had gardens about them, tangled and wild- grown; a population of decrepit statues in the rococo taste strolled in their walks or simpered from their gates. A Foregone Conclusion Its double street door has old handles and carved rococo mirrors, but the frames cannelated in the style of Louis XVI. Wanderers He entered the gilded elevator, stepped out on the sixth floor into a tiny, rococo, public reception-room. The Fighting Chance He took us, naturally, to several churches, old and new, with their Gothic and rococo interiors, which I still find glooming and glinting among my evermore thickening impressions of like things. Familiar Spanish Travels "They are much better than good—they are the very worst rococo." Indian Summer Oh, Don Ippolito's a pagan, I tell you; and I'm a painter, and the rococo is my weakness. A Foregone Conclusion It developed, finally, into an argument over the treatment of the acanthus motive in rococo ornament. Linda Condon But he couldn't find the rococo room—or perhaps he didn't recognise it. The Fighting Chance America, excepting in New York City, escaped the false rococo taste of the eighteenth century. The Life and Genius of Nathaniel Hawthorne The monuments of the Abbey are often grotesque enough, but where they are so they are in the taste of times far enough back to have become rococo and charming. London Films And yet he eminently reflects his own time, the gay, the light-hearted Gustavian era, with its classical fancies and rococo tastes. Norwegian Life In each of the thousand Louis XVI operating rooms a Destyn-Carr wireless instrument was to stand upon a rococo table. The Green Mouse The back-drop of office-lights began to blink out then, all except the tallest tower in the world, rising in the glory of its own spotlight into a rococo pinnacle of man's accomplishment. Gaslight Sonatas It mingled with a suggestion of Venice, the eighteenth century Venice of the princes of Naxos—how curiously she brought back tags of discarded reading!—and of the rococo Viennese court. Cytherea This appropriate and beautiful name has been rejected in favor of the ridiculously rococo term "Diana's Bath." Algonquin Legends of New England Fringing the exquisitely tinted coral strand were outlying reefs, alternately concave and convex, which gave the shore edge a scalloped, almost rococo finish, which I have heard decorators call the Chinese-Chippendale "effect." The Cruise of the Kawa The ornate, rococo elevator, as a matter of fact, was running away, upward, slowly at first. The Green Mouse He did the same for 'flâneur,' and for 'rococo,' and for many more, bearing similar marks of a popular origin. On the Study of Words The great façade on the gardens is like an enormous rococo clock-face all incrusted with images and arabesques and tablets. Italian Hours An eighteenth century critic would call American literature ugly, or at least homely, if he dipped into its realities, rococo if he did not. Definitions: Essays in Contemporary Criticism Patty," said Elise, in a stage whisper, "I hate to own up to it, but really, I never did know what rococo meant! Patty in Paris The walls were entirely formed of great mirrors, in splendid rococo frames of carved wood, gilt. Memoirs (Vieux Souvenirs) of the Prince de Joinville On Sunday he went to the little grey rococo parish church. The Cardinal's Snuff-Box Obediently I took the trinket from him, and, examining it as well as I might, saw that a letter was engraved upon it, one of those ornamental initials surrounded by rococo scrolls and flourishes. The Broad Highway They were luxurious with heavy silk and rich rococo furniture, all of which were much soiled with age. My Life — Volume 1 Here Isabelle dropped into a chair, sitting sidewise, with one bare arm locked across its rococo back, and stared dully ahead of her, a queen of tragedy. Harriet and the Piper Who is the remarkable new person with the orange tie and the rococo buckle on his jacket belt—the one that just went through? Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man Their fragrant rococo style brings one back into that original atmosphere the destinies of which were so largely controlled by similar attractions. The Galleries of the Exposition I seemed to have been building up a rococo stucco habitation out of whims and fancies, adding a room here and a row of pinnacles there, all utterly bizarre and grotesque. Escape, and Other Essays It was very rococo, like an old French picture, but enchanting for all that. The Upton Letters The Early Victorian upholsterers derided the stiffness and austerity of Queen Anne furniture, and the public genuinely admired the florid and rococo forms of Early Victorian art. From a College Window At first, with Malherbe, you may think it, like the architecture, the whole mode of life, the very dresses of that time, fantastic, faded, rococo. The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry Göhler's "Castle Terrace" has a particularly fine sky and a true rococo atmosphere. The Galleries of the Exposition As is generally the case with geniuses, he was a child; a child led by momentary conditions; moreover, a child of the rococo period. Mozart: the man and the artist, as revealed in his own words The palace, begun by Augustus, he esteemed the most curious masterpiece of rococo architecture. Balzac I wish this, for the sake of the poetical delivery in all of the songs, except the "Adelaide," because the poem roams about rather too freely in rococo style. Letters of Franz Liszt -- Volume 2 from Rome to the End An oval mirror of rococo workmanship, and a heavy cabinet-piano with a cornice like that of an Egyptian temple, adjoined a harmonium of yesterday, and a harp that was almost as new. The Hand of Ethelberta Miss Osmond, indeed, in the bloom of her juvenility, had a hint of the rococo which Rosier, whose taste was predominantly for that manner, could not fail to appreciate. The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 This is now a little rococo and forlorn, but failure may be assured by travelling in this direction. How to Fail in Literature; a lecture A sort of house door, painted grey, still ornamented with rococo carving and which a hundred years ago probably was the entrance to the boudoir of some little mistress, had been adjusted to the palisade. The Memoirs of Victor Hugo At first, with Malherbe, you may find it, like the architecture, the whole mode of life, the very dresses of that time, fantastic, faded, rococo. The Renaissance Studies in Art and Poetry We closed the deal an hour later in the rococo rouge et noise room. Strictly business: more stories of the four million This humanistic rococo is set forth by Bembo in verses of great beauty, concluding with .an address to Virgil, which any poet might envy him. The Civilisation of the Renaissance in Italy One found one's self in a singular frame of mind -- more eighteenth-century than ever -- almost rococo -- and unable to catch anywhere the cog-wheels of evolution. The Education of Henry Adams The moral position of the malefactor is so delicate and difficult that we shall attempt to treat of it in the severe, though rococo, manner of Aristotle's "Ethics." The Library There was the morning-room, with its pale lemon walls, its painted Venetian chairs and rococo tables, its mirrors, its modern pictures. Crome Yellow She placed her candle upon a tiny rococo table, and seated herself in a quaint, low chair overtopped by two tiny ivory horns that spread like hands of blessing above her head. Other Things Being Equal "This is our place," said the detective, looking up at the tall, handsome gateway and the rococo carvings that ornamented the front of this decaying dwelling. The Case of the Pocket Diary Found in the Snow The garden front, painted in the German fashion, imitated a trellis with flowers up to the second floor, and was really a charming example of the Pompadour style, so well called rococo. Honorine Pope makes him a wit, spirited, occasionally noble, full of points, and epigrams, and queer rococo conventionalisms. Essays in Little At the moment Madame d'Espard was seated in one of the old rococo armchairs of which Madame had set the fashion. The Commission in Lunacy Don’t you think, dear Hopkins, that this allusion to bas-bleus, if not indelicate, is a little rococo, and out of date? Letters on Literature The cathedral, which, up to that time, I had supposed to be in a debased rococo style, I found to be of a simple, noble Renaissance character, and of real dignity. Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White — Volume 2 Madame's bedroom was draped in a fabric of true blue and furnished in a rococo manner. Bureaucracy |
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