See Also: Rococo style(encyclopedia)
rococo(dictionary)
rococo(medicine)
rococo(dictionary)
Rococo Truffles(recipes)
Style(medicine)
style(2)(dictionary)
old-style(dictionary)
Perpendicular style(encyclopedia)
style 1, noun(dictionary)

Gorgonzola (recipes) and Rococo style (sh)


Gorgonzola (recipes)


An Italian blue cheese made from pasteurised cows' milk. It' s pale yellow streaked with greenish-blue veins. It has a distinct smell and can be mild, strong or sharp in flavour depending on its maturity. Gorgonzola is rich and creamy, generally used uncooked. It' s often eaten as a dessert cheese but is also good in salads and dips.Spiced walnut and rocket salad with a gorgonzola dressingBlue cheese dip with chargrilled fennel

Rococo style (sh)




or Late Baroque

Style in Interior Design, the decorative arts, painting, architecture, and sculpture that originated in Paris in the early 18th century.

The word Rococo is derived from French rocaille, denoting the shell-covered rockwork used to decorate artificial grottoes. Reacting against the ponderous Baroque that had become the official style of Louis XIV's reign, the Rococo was light, elegant, and elaborately ornamented. Several interior designers, painters, and engravers
among them Pierre Le Pautre, Juste-Aurele Meissonier, Jean Berain, and Nicolas Pineau
developed a lighter and more intimate style of decoration for the new residences of nobles in Paris, and the style was disseminated throughout France by means of engravings. In these designers' work, walls, ceilings, and moldings feature interlacings of curves and countercurves based on S and C shapes as well as on shell forms and Other natural shapes. Chinese motifs were also employed (see chinoiserie). Rococo painting was characterized by easygoing treatments of mythological and courtship themes, delicate brushwork, and sensuous colouring; notable practitioners included Antoine Watteau, Fran?ois Boucher, and Jean-Honore Fragonard. The Rococo style spread throughout France and Other countries, principally Germany and Austria. Among the finest German examples of Rococo architecture is the church designed by Balthasar Neumann at Vierzehnheiligen, near Lichtenfels, in Bavaria. In Italy the Rococo style was concentrated primarily in Venice, where it was epitomized by the large-scale decorative paintings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.