Unlike the game of Renaissance described above, Rococo has a similarly named Swapper piece that moves like a Queen, but trades places with the enemy it runs up to, a full Queen's move away.

In the book The Rococo, it is written that there was no other culture which " has produced a wittier, more elegant, and teasing dialogue full of elusive and camouflaging language and gestures, refined feelings and subtle criticism " than Rococo theatre, especially that of France.

In addition to the traditional Baroque pieces, Rococo has an Advancer piece that moves like a Queen, but captures the enemy piece it has run up next to, stopping just short of the piece taken.

Astrild probably originated in the writings of the 17th century Swedish poet Georg Stiernhielm, and has since been used in Nordic poetry, mainly during the Baroque and Rococo eras.

Lloyd Webber has made many recordings, including his BRIT Award winning Elgar Cello Concerto conducted by Yehudi Menuhin ( chosen as the finest ever version by BBC Music Magazine ), the Dvořák Cello Concerto with Václav Neumann and the Czech Philharmonic, Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations with the London Symphony Orchestra under Maxim Shostakovich and a coupling of Britten's Cello Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto with Sir Neville Marriner and the Academy of St Martin in the Fields, which was described by Gramophone magazine as " beyond any rival ".

The Executive Chamber has been restored to its 1859 appearance with pediment hooded windows supported by Italianate-style brackets, and gilded Rococo Revival drapery cornices.

She has released two albums on the Karaoke Kalk label: Kids with Sticks in 2001 and the collaboration Kuchen Meets Mapstation in 2003 with Stefan Schneider of To Rococo Rot ( who also records as Mapstation ).

Surviving the fires, are a room at the west end which has panelled walls and a stucco ceiling in Rococo style, and parts of Roscoe's library.

The ceiling has Rococo plasterwork by Oliver.

Wrest has some of the earliest Rococo Revival interiors in England.

On the planet of Quintenix, where the situation has long been peaceful, a group calling themselves " The Hackers ", headed by Blackmore, suddenly starts an uprising against the population by disrupting the peace of the town of Rococo ( and elsewhere ).

is a fashion subculture originating in Japan that is based on Victorian-era clothing as well as costumes from the Rococo period, but the style has expanded greatly beyond Japan.

around 1745 during the reign of empress Maria Theresia and has a Rococo interior.

The first fully Rococo structure erected at the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall, was the " Turkish Tent " that was still a novelty in 1744 ; " this fantastic structure introduced that element of frivolous impermanence which became so characteristic of Vauxhall ," David Coke has remarked.

Jofur probably originated in the writings of the 17th century Swedish scientist and writer Olaus Rudbeckius, and has since been used in Nordic poetry, mainly during the Baroque and Rococo eras.

Rather, it has more of an " advanced Rococo " character, spicing strings with creative use of wind instruments.

Each has the dazzle of bric-a-brac ornament, but as in his painting of the ‘’ Judgement of the model ’’, that painterly decorative air of Rococo and Romanticism was fading into academicism and left to confront the naked reality of the represented object.

The palace is built in the Baroque style, but has elements of Rococo and neoclassicism.

The second movement is rather more unusual: it opens with an almost classical melody, much like Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme for cello, and then proceeds with an assured set of variations, also like the Rococo Variations.

It is sometimes called Galant, Rococo, or pre-Classical, or at other times early Classical.

The Rococo Ottobeuren Abbey | Basilica at Ottobeuren ( Bavaria ): architectural spaces flow together and swarm with life

The British were among the first to revive the " Louis XIV style " as it was miscalled at first, and paid inflated prices for second-hand Rococo luxury goods that could scarcely be sold in Paris.

The lighthearted themes and intricate designs of Rococo presented themselves best at a more intimate scale than the imposing Baroque architecture and sculpture.

It is not surprising, then, that French Rococo art was at home indoors.

Abstract and asymmetrical Rococo decoration: ceiling stucco at the Neues Schloss, Tettnang

A few anti-architectural hints rapidly evolved into full-blown Rococo at the end of the 1720s and began to affect interiors and decorative arts throughout Europe.

After the Rococo Hall at Grand Hotel opened in 1894, annual balls in the Carnival season were arranged until the hall was destroyed in a fire in 1957.

Pleasure pavilions in " Chinese taste " appeared in the formal parterres of late Baroque and Rococo German palaces, and in tile panels at Aranjuez near Madrid.

Thomas Chippendale ( probably born at Farnley near Otley, baptised at Otley-November 1779 ) was a London cabinet-maker and furniture designer in the mid-Georgian, English Rococo, and Neoclassical styles.

The building in which the Museum resides, located at Brunswick Square, was built in 1935 – 1937 and incorporates architectural features as well as original Rococo interiors from the first Foundling Hospital, built in 1741, but demolished in 1926.

In contrast to the Rococo whimsicality and licentiousness cultivated by Boucher and Fragonard in the later part of Louis XV's reign, Watteau's theatrical panache is usually tinged with a note of sympathy, wistfulness, and sadness at the transience of love and other earthly delights.

A versatile artist influenced by the French Rococo style, he achieved some note during the 1740s through decorative paintings executed for the supper boxes at Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens in London.

he was a great figure in his day, around whose modest and kindly personality there waged opposing storms of denunciation and applause, as the Rococo style he embodied was rejected in favor of Neoclassicism ; Charles Othon Frédéric Jean-Baptiste de Clarac asserted that he had delivered a mortal blow at sculpture.

Pleasure pavilions in " Chinese taste " appeared in the formal parterres of late Baroque and Rococo German and Russian palaces, and in tile panels at Aranjuez near Madrid.

The manufacture of silk at Spitalfields in London was also a traditional Huguenot business, but from the late 1720s silk design was dominated by the surprising figure of Anna Maria Garthwaite, a parson's daughter from Lincolnshire who emerged at the age of 40 as a designer of largely floral patterns in Rococo styles.

A portmanteau of the words Baroque and Rococo, the term was originally used as a criticism of the characteristic ease with which the average listener could enjoy this style of music at the height of Baroque revival in the first half of the 20th century.

In 1735, Gavin Hamilton painted A Conversation of Virtuosis ... at the Kings Arms, a group portrait that included: Michael Dahl ; George Vertue ; John Wootton ; Gibbs ; and Rysbrack ; along with other artists who were instrumental in bringing the Rococo style to English design and interiors.

The award was presented to him during the 12th Annual Rimington Trophy Presentation banquet on Saturday, January 14, 2012 at the Rococo Theatre in Lincoln, Nebraska.

The Rococo is sometimes considered a final phase of the Baroque period.

Next to the market place is the Old Town Hall, built in 1737 in Rococo style, under the rule of Clemens August of Bavaria.

The library interior is exquisitely realised in the Rococo style with carved polished wood, stucco and paint used to achieve its overall effect.

Rococo ( or ), less commonly roccoco, also referred to as " Late Baroque ", is an 18th-century artistic movement and style, which affected several aspects of the arts including painting, sculpture, architecture, interior design, decoration, literature, music and theatre.

The word Rococo is seen as a combination of the French rocaille, meaning stone, and coquilles, meaning shell, due to reliance on these objects as motifs of decoration.

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.

Although Rococo is usually thought of as developing first in the decorative arts and interior design, its origins lie in the late Baroque architectural work of Borromini ( 1599 – 1667 ) mostly in Rome and Guarini ( 1624 – 83 ) mostly in Northern Italy but also in Vienna, Prague, Lisbon, and Paris.

The delicacy and playfulness of Rococo designs is often seen as perfectly in tune with the excesses of Louis XV's reign.

The development of Rococo in Great Britain is considered to have been connected with the revival of interest in Gothic architecture early in the 18th century.

In Germany, late 18th century Rococo was ridiculed as Zopf und Perücke (" pigtail and periwig "), and this phase is sometimes referred to as Zopfstil.

The word ' Rococo ' is derived from the French " rocaille ", a word used to describe the rock and shell work of the Versailles grottoes.

The Catherine Palace in Tsarskoye Selo is one of the northernmost Rococo buildings

In those Continental contexts where Rococo is fully in control, sportive, fantastic, and sculptured forms are expressed with abstract ornament using flaming, leafy or shell-like textures in asymmetrical sweeps and flourishes and broken curves ; intimate Rococo interiors suppress architectonic divisions of architrave, frieze, and cornice for the picturesque, the curious, and the whimsical, expressed in plastic materials like carved wood and above all stucco ( as in the work of the Wessobrunner School ).

The Rococo palette is softer and paler than the rich primary colors and dark tonalities favored in Baroque tastes.

Rococo plasterwork by immigrant Italian-Swiss artists like Bagutti and Artari is a feature of houses by James Gibbs, and the Franchini brothers working in Ireland equalled anything that was attempted in Great Britain.

Here, on the Kentian mantel, the crowd of Chinese vases and mandarins are satirically rendered as hideous little monstrosities, and the Rococo wall clock is a jumble of leafy branches.

In general, Rococo is an entirely interior style, because the wealthy and aristocratic moved back to Paris from Versailles.

Jean-Antoine Watteau ( 1684 – 1721 ) is generally considered the first great Rococo painter.

Étienne-Maurice Falconet ( 1716 – 1791 ) is widely considered one of the best representatives of French Rococo.