A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 199
ement mortar 302 ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE poured over it, ami cartli, iicliMos, aiul tlic likohlliiiix the cavities, sonutimes haviiij; grass andsmall idalits giowiiig uixiii it ; the whole in-tended as a garden decoration in what wassujiposed to he a naturalistic style. Thisdevice was common in the… … tecture of the century beginning about 1660A.D. in so far as it is marked by a certainexcess of curvature and a lack of firm lines andformal distvil)Ution. The term is of Frenchorigin, in spite of its Italian appearance, iindwas apparently derived from the term Rocaille.The characteristic…
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