Rococo

Rococo

<div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text_headlines"> <div> <strong>The dramatic style of the 18th century</strong></div> <div>  </div> </div> <div class="description_text"> <div class="margin-bottom" id="description_text"> Emerging out of Baroque as a more relaxed style, <strong>Rococo</strong> was dominant in interiors, decorative art, and painting throughout Europe in the 18th century. With sentiment and emotion prevailing over reason, Rococo was a dramatic and theatrical style. In the Parisian art world, gallant scenes by <strong>Watteau, Boucher</strong> and <strong>Fragonard</strong> predominated, along with the delicate still lifes and genre paintings of <strong>Chardin</strong>. In Venice, we find the magnificent cityscapes and veduta of <strong>Canaletto</strong> and <strong>Guardi</strong>, along with <strong>Tiepolo</strong>’s brilliantly illuminated ceiling frescos. London society celebrated portraitists of stature such as <strong>Hogarth, Gainsborough</strong>, and <strong>Reynolds</strong>, while in Southern Germany and Austria, pious images of celestial serenity created by <strong>Asam</strong> and <strong>Troger</strong> spanned the church ceilings.<br /> <br /> Artists featured among others: <strong>François Boucher, Canaletto, Rosalba Carriera, Jean-Baptiste Siméon Chardin, John Singleton Copley, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Thomas Gainsborough, Francisco de Goya, Francesco Guardi, William Hogarth, Angelika Kauffmann, Nicolas Lancret, Maurice Quentin de La Tour, Thomas Lawrence, Jean-Marc Nattier the Younger, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Joshua Reynolds, Johann Heinrich Tischbein, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jean-Antoine Watteau, Joseph Wright</strong></div> <div class="margin-bottom">  </div> <div class="margin-bottom" id="series_text" style="display: block;"> <strong>About the Series:</strong><br /> Each book in TASCHEN's Basic Genre Series features:<ul> <li>a detailed illustrated introduction plus a timeline of the most important political, cultural and social events that took place during that period</li> <li>a selection of the most important works of the epoch, each of which is presented on a 2-page spread with a full-page image and with an interpretation of the respective work, plus a portrait and brief biography of the artist</li> <li>approximately 100 colour illustrations with explanatory captions</li> </ul> </div> </div>