Sarah Coffin
The movement known as Rococo began in eighteenth-century France, and has infused design objects with a sinuous, organic, and sensuous impulse for three centuries. Rococo dominated French design from 1730 to 1765, during the reign of Louis XV.
Eva-Gesine Baur
The dramatic style of the 18th century emerging out of Baroque as a more relaxed style, Rococo 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 Watteau, Boucher and Fragonard predominated, along with the delicate still lifes and genre paintings of Chardin.
Alexander Eiling
More than any other Impressionist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir defined the treatment of the human figure for his generation, while also portraying the emergent Parisian bourgeois way of life. In this volume, Renoir’s painting After the Luncheon, which depicts three bourgeois figures enjoying tea, liquor and cigarettes after a meal in a restaurant, serves as the jumping-off point for a far-reaching examination of an important source of inspiration for the painter throughout his life: the Rococo.
Cesare Ripa
Great 1593 work codified and developed symbolism of baroque and rococo periods. This royalty-free volume reprints 200 plates from rare 18th-century edition, Hertel’s Historiae et Allegoriae, with English translations of the German and Latin captions, and full descriptions, interpretations and analyses of Ripa’s work.
Katie Scott
Defines and depicts the arts and architecture of the rococo period in France and examines its relation to society.
Michael Levey
In this brilliant study of 18th century painting, Michael Levey analyzes in depth an era torn between opposing forces – autocracy and freedom in politics, Rococo and neoclassicism in art – which are nothing more than the manifestation of the fundamental opposition between the conscious and unconscious mind.
Marco Bussagli
This era of exuberant creativity celebrates this beautifully illustrated new art book at a competitive price. Baroque art was characterized by raw emotion, elaborate decorative elements and dramatic use of light, reaching its apogee in works such as Bernini’s magnificent altarpiece The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa.
Gillian Wilson
The first comprehensive catalogue of the Getty Museum’s significant collection of French Rococo ébénisterie furniture.
Klaus H. Carl
Deriving from the French word rocaille, in reference to the curved forms of shellfish, and the Italian barocco, the French created the term Rococo. Appearing at the beginning of the 18th century, it rapidly spread to the whole of Europe.
Rosalind Savill
Everyday Rococo is a richly illustrated, year-by-year chronology of Madame de Pompadour’s daily life and purchases. Rosalind Savill’s diligent research on the everyday details of Madame de Pompadour’s life—for which Vincennes/Sèvres catered so perfectly—also reveals her as a major player in the art and politics of eighteenth-century France.