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BAROQUE

This article appears in Volume V03, Page 424 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: BAR-BEC
BAROQUE , a technical
term
 , chiefly applicable to
architecture
 , furniture and
household
  decoration. Apparently of Spanish origina barrueco is a large, irregularly-shaped pearlthe word was for a
time
  confined to the craft of the jeweller. It indicates the more extravagant fashions of
design
  that were common in the first half of the 18th
century
 , chiefly in
Italy
  and
France
 , in which everything is fantastic,
grotesque
 , florid or incongruousirregular shapes, meaningless forms, an utter lack of restraint and simplicity. The word suggests much the same order of ideas as rococo.


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