Rococo represented again another pinnacle of a direction started back in the Gothic era, expanded on in the Baroque era and finally made more intimate and sensual in this Rococo era.

With command over stone, glass and painting and a fixation over opulence there was even more attention to details.

Expensive materials, lots of windows and an attempt to make the structures feel more like 'living' surfaces, the stone treatment contained organic and undulating surfaces.

The ornamentation was intense, colors bright, light and 'airy'.

These churches and palaces represented the high point in the use of light and stone. 

Time and labor intensive and considered highly extravagant by most standards, they left the average peasant 'out of the loop'

No longer building for the sake of the average person, to teach and inspire, this was opulence because they could do it and in relation to the average poor peasant who came to the Church, so far above what their lives were about as to alienate the masses rather than include them.

Those that sought a middle road, more conservative and classical would rebel against this kind of architecture and change yet again the direction of style