Baroque
Baroque adjective - Going beyond a normal or acceptable limit in degree or amount.
Rococo
Rococo adjective - Having excessive asymmetrical ornamentation.
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Balthasar Neumann (1687 - 1753) — Baroque and Rococo builder.
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Rococo or often described as "late Baroque" can be described as a sugary-sweet, sentimental approach to painting, where the idea was to glory in curves, filigree and all kinds of joyful forms.
Source: Creator / Jacques-Louis David - These new styles, called "sensitive style" in Germany and "regency style" in France (after the regent of the child king Louis XV), corresponded to the change in art and architecture from Baroque to Rococo and were precursors for the slowly emerging "classical style".
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