Word: rococo
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...room in the doctor's house. The background is formed by high panels, elaborately decorated. In the center is a large, arched window with draped curtains which looks out upon the canal. The decorations on the walls, the paintings, and the furniture, are all done in the intricate rococo style typical of the period...
DESOLATE SPLENDOR?Michael Sadleir?Putnam ($2.00). Here is all the mechanism of a mid-Victorian thriller, set forth in a suavely rococo style, at times a trifle suggestive of Bulwer-Lytton?a Ouida plot elaborated with deliberate ornateness. The wicked Earl paints his eyelids. The innocent ward of a charming ex-roué, Charles Plethern, is nearly entrapped into an infamous bargain by Plethern's monstrous mother. The last, by the way, is an admirable character?a sleek, powerful woman who collects Rops etchings and erotic playing-cards and lives in a tower shudderously spoken of as the Devil's Candle...
...spirit of the most significant stages in the development of European culture. This effect of the building itself is heightened by the large collection of architectural views contained in a suite of smaller rooms, views of mediaeval cathedrals and castles, Renaissance city halls and burgher houses, and Baroque and Rococo mansions and palaces. This museum, therefore, by virtue of the fact that its architectural features are striking illustrations of the spiritual character of past epochs, is of interest not only to the student of architecture, but to the student of history and the student of literature as well, and thus...