A dictionary of architecture and building : biographical, historical, and descriptive (1902)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York : The Macmillan company · leaf 199
rials, with cement mortar 302 ROCOCO ARCHITECTURE poured over it, and earth, pebbles, and the likefilling the cavities, sometimes having grass andsmall plants growing upon it; the whole in-tended as a garden decoration in what wassupposed to be a naturalistic style. Thisdevice was common in the… … Rococo Arc hitectlke; Earliest TviE; DoultwToulouse, France. 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 distribution. The term is of Frenchorigin, in spite of its Italian appearance, andwas ajjparently…
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