Baroque vs. Rococo

Baroqueadjective

Ornate, intricate, decorated, laden with detail.

Baroqueadjective

Complex and beautiful, despite an outward irregularity.

Baroqueadjective

Chiseled from stone, or shaped from wood, in a garish, crooked, twisted, or slanted sort of way, grotesque.

Baroqueadjective

Embellished with figures and forms such that every level of relief gives way to more details and contrasts.

Baroqueadjective

of, pertaining to, or characteristic of, an artistic style common in the 17th century, characterized by the use of complex and elaborate ornamentation, curved rather than straight lines, and, in music a high degree of embellishment.

Baroqueadjective

Hence, overly complicated, or ornamented to excess; in bad taste; grotesque; odd.

Baroqueadjective

Irregular in form; - said esp. of a pearl.

Baroquenoun

elaborate an extensive ornamentation in decorative art and architecture that flourished in Europe in the 17th century

Baroqueadjective

having elaborate symmetrical ornamentation;

Baroque

The Baroque (UK: , US: ; French: [baʁɔk]) is a style of architecture, music, dance, painting, sculpture, and other arts that flourished in Europe from the early 17th century until the 1740s. In the territories of the Spanish and Portuguese empires including the Iberian Peninsula it continued, together with new styles, until the first decade of the 1800s.

Rococonoun

A style of baroque architecture and decorative art, from 18th-century France, having elaborate ornamentation.

Rococoadjective

Of or relating to the rococo style.

Rococoadjective

Over-elaborate or complicated; opulent.

Rococoadjective

Old-fashioned.

Rococonoun

A florid style of ornamentation which prevailed in Europe in the latter part of the eighteenth century.

Rococoadjective

Of or pertaining to the style called rococo; like rococo; florid; fantastic.

Rococonoun

fanciful but graceful asymmetric ornamentation in art and architecture that originated in France in the 18th century

Rococoadjective

having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation;

Rococo

Rococo (, also US: ), less commonly Roccoco or Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and theatrical style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colors, sculpted molding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and the illusion of motion and drama. It is often described as the final expression of the Baroque movement.The Rococo style began in France in the 1730s as a reaction against the more formal and geometric Style Louis XIV. It was known as the style rocaille, or rocaille style.