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Definition of Rocailles

Rocaille
Rocaille Ro`caille", n. [F. Cf. Rock a stone.] (Art) (a) Artificial rockwork made of rough stones and cement, as for gardens. (b) The rococo system of scroll ornament, based in part on the forms of shells and water-worn rocks.

Meaning of Rocailles from wikipedia

- Seed beads or rocailles are uniformly shaped, spheroidal beads ranging in size from under a millimeter to several millimeters. Seed bead is also a generic...
- Rocaille (US: /roʊˈkaɪ, rɒˈkaɪ/ ro(h)-KY, French: [ʁɔkɑj]) was a French style of exuberant decoration, with an abundance of curves, counter-curves, undulations...
- The Rocaille egg is one of the Fabergé eggs created in the workshop of Peter Carl Fabergé for the wealthy Russian industrialist Alexander Kelch who presented...
- An engraving from the ouvrage «Quatrieme livre des formes, orneė des rocailles, carteles, figures oyseaux et dragon» 1736 Antoine Watteau, Pierrot, 1718...
- the fashion called rocaille. From about 1750 to the King's death in 1774, a reaction set in against the excesses of the rocaille. The Louis XV style...
- punch". The Guardian. Annalisa P. Cignitti (23 May 2012). "Michèle Lamy". Rocaille. Virbilla, S. Irene (26 April 1998). "Les Deux Cafes'Inside Story". Los...
- became more original, decorative and exuberant, in what was known as the Rocaille style, under the influence of the King's mistress, Madame de Pompadour...
- classicism Louis XIV style Poussinists and Rubenists 18th century Rococo Rocaille Louis XV style Frederician Chinoiserie Fête galante Neoclassicism Goût...
- By the 1730s, it had evolved into an even more flamboyant style, called rocaille or Rococo, which appeared in France and Central Europe until the mid to...
- (1964) Où en est le projet des Rocailles ? Jakes Abeberry, 3e adjoint, nous présente le projet pour le quartier des Rocailles, autour de la ****ure bibliothèque...