The Rococo style was created by and for the upper class. Marked by luxury and elegance, the style's name itself derives from rocaille, French for the fancy rock or shell-work that was commonly used to ornament aristocratic gardens and grottoes. Meant for small parties of the nobility, Rococo art preserved the ornate and luxuriant features of the baroque style, but favored elements of play and intimacy that were best realized in works of a small scale, such as porcelain figurines, furniture, and paintings suitable for domestic quarters.Works in the Rococo style, although beautiful, were delicate and so not suitable for the everyday person's life. The use of porcelain and upholstery on furniture was problematic for those who could not care for and maintain the items. Further, the Rococo

style carried with it, in its fragile forms and delicate colors, a mood of reverie and nostalgia, sentiments that only those who lived a life of leisure had time to indulge.

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