The new interiors sought to recreate an authentically Roman and genuinely interior vocabulary. Techniques employed in the style included flatter, lighter motifs, sculpted in low frieze-like relief or painted in monotones en camaïeu ("like cameos"), isolated medallions or vases or busts or bucrania or other motifs, suspended on swags of laurel or ribbon, with slender arabesques against backgrounds, perhaps, of "Pompeiian red" or pale tints, or stone colours. The style in France was initially a Parisian style, the Goût grec ("Greek style"), not a court style; when Louis XVI acceded to the throne in 1774, Marie Antoinette, his fashion-loving Queen, brought the "Louis XVI" style to court. COUNT 5
QSN1 What were interiors seeking to recreate? ANS1 authentically Roman QSN2 What colors were utilized for interiors? ANS2 "Pompeiian red" or pale tints, or stone colours QSN3 Who brought Louis XVI style to the court? ANS3 Marie Antoinette QSN4 What types of techniques were used to style motifs? ANS4 flatter, lighter motifs, sculpted in low frieze-like relief or painted in monotones QSN5 What were styles in France initially? ANS5 Parisian