Rococo (from French 'rocaille': ornamental shellwork) describes the style that succeeded the Baroque in 18th-century France and spread across Europe, reaching its most elaborate expression in Austrian and German church architecture. Where the Baroque is monumental and theatrical, Rococo is intimate and playful — pastel colours, curved forms, asymmetrical ornament, scenes of outdoor pleasure and romantic dalliance. Watteau's fêtes galantes, Boucher's mythological scenes, Fragonard's The Swing — these paintings depict an aristocratic world of eternal leisure, slightly artificial, lit by a gentle, unserious light. In architecture, the Amalienburg hunting lodge near Munich by Cuvilliés (1734–39) is perhaps the perfect Rococo interior: silver, gold, mirrors and delicate stucco, every surface decorated, nothing heavy, nothing sombre. It was the art of the generation that preceded the Revolution.