<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/6915decd-01a0-49f0-841a-0c67c00053f7/4E4F767C-227C-46AD-A649-3D656CB1FB14/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.colourlovers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/58DC2F2D-C9F1-4923-952D-CA593C44889A" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><P>The <A target="_blank" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rococo">Rococo</A> palette is softer and paler than the rich primary colors and dark tonalities favored in Baroque tastes.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><P>Rococo is a style of 18th century French art and interior design. Rococo rooms were designed as total works of art with elegant and ornate furniture, small sculptures, ornamental mirrors, and tapestry complementing architecture, reliefs, and wall paintings. It was largely supplanted by the Neoclassic style.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><P><A href="http://www.colourlovers.com/uploads/2009/08/rococowomen1.jpg"><IMG width="490" height="306" alt="" src="http://www.colourlovers.com/uploads/2009/08/rococowomen1.jpg" title="rococowomen1" class="alignnone size-full wp-image-9501" /></A> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/924530/The_Reader?c=1"><IMG alt="The_Reader" src="http://www.colourlovers.com/images/badges/pw/924/924530_The_Reader.png" /></A> <A target="_blank" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/palette/924521/The_Swing"><IMG alt="The_Swing" src="http://www.colourlovers.com/images/badges/p/924/924521_The_Swing.png" /></A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/">The word Rococo is seen as a combination of the French rocaille, or stone garden (referring to arranging stones in natural forms like shells), and the Italian barocco, or Baroque style</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/5A194AB3-9F5C-4762-9C61-02B174FE14E0" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/37BD9D90-F214-44E2-90EA-7BE685A70002" alt="Renaud_and_Armide" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/504E9682-47E5-40C2-8DAC-36387CF5FA4E" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/D75359D4-78CA-4498-BC0B-778BF2BC1960" alt="The_Mistress" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><H2>Architecture & Interior Design</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><P>Rococo style took pleasure in asymmetry, a taste that was new to European style. This practice of leaving elements unbalanced for effect is called contraste.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/25A62EA7-4BE3-4F2F-A998-893148976324" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/21F66425-65C7-4887-A25B-C1C72A2269A4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/7AF115DB-EA88-4541-9BA9-03DE5DBA9506" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/A6E52F0D-1482-4F5C-A390-A3F5394BF011" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/A88BCE9E-B4BC-4FD1-9399-79F86E66A766" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:6_Warszawa_159.jpg" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:6_Warszawa_159.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:6_Warszawa_159.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/en.wikipedia.org/img/7A07DD48-F3DA-4945-9771-571062016598" alt="File:6 Warszawa 159.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/" href="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.colourlovers.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><H2>Painting</H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/3C4EB564-76FB-461A-862A-46DA4526EF59" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/39D53C4B-9609-4D25-B644-4D446EEDD280" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/A77BE793-0CC4-415D-8FEE-A000B283D7B2" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/A491B017-CFC8-47C7-B77D-5C74B87567EE" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2009/08/14/classic-colors-rococo/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.colourlovers.com/img/07104098-4EB2-4AF4-945E-F7024C3433D4" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo-3.html" href="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo-3.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.all-art.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo-3.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.all-art.org/img/51A8DC5E-6746-491A-B099-19A71602D845" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo-3.html"><FONT face="Verdana"><FONT size="6" color="#000000"></FONT><FONT size="5" color="#000000"> </FONT> </FONT><A href="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo.html"> <B> <FONT size="2" color="#000000">Part I - </FONT></B> <FONT size="4" color="#000000">Baroque and Rococo</FONT></A><FONT size="4" color="#000000"> </FONT><A href="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo-2.html"> <B> <FONT size="2" color="#000000">Part II - </FONT></B> <FONT size="4" color="#000000">Baroque and Rococo</FONT></A><FONT size="4" color="#000000"> </FONT><A href="http://www.all-art.org/history252_contents_Baroque_Rococo-3.html"> <B> <FONT size="2" color="#000000">Part III - </FONT></B> <FONT size="4" color="#000000">Baroque and Rococo</FONT></A><FONT face="Verdana" color="#000000"> </FONT><FONT face="Verdana"> </FONT></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/watteau/i/perspective.jpg" href="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/watteau/i/perspective.jpg" style="font-size: 11px;">www.ibiblio.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/watteau/i/perspective.jpg"><div align="center"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.ibiblio.org/img/14506A86-536C-49BD-A3F1-07680E41C493" alt="http://www.ibiblio.org/wm/paint/auth/watteau/i/perspective.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; 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