| The furniture built in the style called Rococo is a | | | | relates to the preoccupation with ornamental |
| variety of artistic production and interior decoration | | | | conceptions and curves in Rococo fashion. Critics |
| which arose in the 18th century in France. A not very | | | | initially applied the term as a disparaging comment |
| well known is that Rococo rooms were developed as | | | | about what they regarded as the frippery of the |
| art salons and had a tasteful collection of fine-looking | | | | Rococo kind of art. But when the term was adopted |
| pieces of furniture, sculptures, mirrors, tapestry, and | | | | into the English linguistic process, it retained the |
| wall paintings. This art variant exhibits the definitive | | | | connotations of classicism both in style and traditional. |
| mold of Neoclassicism. | | | | Art historiographers have varied notions about the |
| The name, Rococo is derived from a compounding of | | | | significance of the movement in the development of |
| the French word rocaille, which stands for shells or in | | | | art but it has at this moment in time been accepted |
| Italian barocco or Baroque fashion. The former | | | | as an influential feature of the span of European art. |