- 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...
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Rocaille (US: /roʊˈkaɪ, rɒˈkaɪ/ ro(h)-KY, French: [ʁɔkɑj]) was a
French style of
exuberant decoration, with an
abundance of curves, counter-curves, undulations...
- 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...
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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...
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classicism Louis XIV
style Poussinists and
Rubenists 18th
century Rococo Rocaille Louis XV
style Frederician Chinoiserie Fête
galante Neoclassicism Goût...
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family moved to
Lausanne in
Switzerland where they
lived in the
Villa Les
Rocailles. In
February 1946, the
family moved to the
Portuguese Riviera. In 1947...
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classicism Louis XIV
style Poussinists and
Rubenists 18th
century Rococo Rocaille Louis XV
style Frederician Chinoiserie Fête
galante Neoclassicism Goût...
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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...
