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Rococo (less commonly roccoco) is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings. It was largely supplanted by the Neoclassic style.

The word Rococo is seen as a combination of the French rocaille, or stone garden (referring to arranging stones in natural forms like shells), and the Italian barocco, or Baroque style. Due to Rococo love of shell-like curves and focus on decorative arts, some critics used the term to derogatively imply that the style was frivolous or merely modish; when the term was first used in English in about 1836, it was a colloquialism meaning "old-fashioned". However, since the mid 19th century, the term has been accepted by art historians. While there is still some debate about the historical significance of the style to art in general, Rococo is now widely recognized as a major period in the development of European art.

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Arcadian Landscape 1780 - Jurriaan Andriessen - www.rococo-in-art.org
Arcadian Landscape 1780
Jurriaan Andriessen
Dutch Galliot and English shipping off Penzance - Charles Martin Powell - www.rococo-in-art.org
Dutch Galliot and English shipping off Penzance
Charles Martin Powell
A View within the Walls of a Pagoda, Madras, plate... - Colonel Francis Swain Ward - www.rococo-in-art.org
A View within the Walls of a Pagoda, Madras, plate...
Colonel Francis Swain Ward
Portrait of Louis XVI (1754-93) - Antoine-Francois Callet - www.rococo-in-art.org
Portrait of Louis XVI (1754-93)
Antoine-Francois Callet
All Souls College, Oxford - Thomas Rowlandson - www.rococo-in-art.org
All Souls College, Oxford
Thomas Rowlandson
Vienna, the Lobkowitzplatz - Bernardo Bellotto (Canaletto) - www.rococo-in-art.org
Vienna, the Lobkowitzplatz
Bernardo Bellotto (Canaletto)
An Open Air Concert - Giuseppe Zais - www.rococo-in-art.org
An Open Air Concert
Giuseppe Zais
Actors from the Comédie Francaise c. 1720 - Jean-Antoine Watteau - www.rococo-in-art.org
Actors from the Comédie Francaise c. 1720
Jean-Antoine Watteau
The Semaphore of Love, engraved by Pierre Michel Alix... - Jean-Frederic Schall - www.rococo-in-art.org
The Semaphore of Love, engraved by Pierre Michel Alix...
Jean-Frederic Schall
The Grand Canal And The Church Of The Salute - (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto - www.rococo-in-art.org
The Grand Canal And The Church Of The Salute
(Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher c. 1755 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - www.rococo-in-art.org
A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher c. 1755
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
The Kinloch Family of Kair - David Allan - www.rococo-in-art.org
The Kinloch Family of Kair
David Allan
Dolo on the Brenta c. 1730-35 - (Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto - www.rococo-in-art.org
Dolo on the Brenta c. 1730-35
(Giovanni Antonio Canal) Canaletto
Autumn (detail) 1745 - François Boucher - www.rococo-in-art.org
Autumn (detail) 1745
François Boucher
Faith, Hope and Charity 1780s - Josef the Younger Winterhalter - www.rococo-in-art.org
Faith, Hope and Charity 1780s
Josef the Younger Winterhalter
Panorama of Gdansk - Frederich Wener - www.rococo-in-art.org
Panorama of Gdansk
Frederich Wener
St. Peter's from the Villa Borghese, Rome - John Robert Cozens - www.rococo-in-art.org
St. Peter's from the Villa Borghese, Rome
John Robert Cozens
A Map of the World, Corrected from the Observations... - John Senex - www.rococo-in-art.org
A Map of the World, Corrected from the Observations...
John Senex
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu - Gervase Spencer - www.rococo-in-art.org
Portrait of Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Gervase Spencer
How vain are all your triumphs past, 1814 - Thomas Rowlandson - www.rococo-in-art.org
How vain are all your triumphs past, 1814
Thomas Rowlandson
Apollo and the Continents (detail-1) 1752-53 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - www.rococo-in-art.org
Apollo and the Continents (detail-1) 1752-53
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Still Life With Duck, 1764 - Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin - www.rococo-in-art.org
Still Life With Duck, 1764
Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin
A Pastoral Idyll, 'The Other Shore' - Edward Calvert - www.rococo-in-art.org
A Pastoral Idyll, 'The Other Shore'
Edward Calvert
Entrance to the Valley of Grande Chartreuse in Dauphiné... - John Robert Cozens - www.rococo-in-art.org
Entrance to the Valley of Grande Chartreuse in Dauphiné...
John Robert Cozens
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