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Rococo
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Rococo was a style of the late phase of the Baroque. The name for this style originated from France: "rococo" is a word borrowed from the French "roccille" and indicates an asymmetric shell-shaped ornament. This already reflects the main ambition of this style: the Rococo art loved the almost immeasurable emphasis of the decorative and the ornamental aspects. Thanks to the court architect Cuvilliés, who had been residing in Munich since 1725, the form of the "roccille" spread out over Europe with the help of prints. He designed his own Bavarian Rococo style. Rococo was a style that coined, above all, the interior design. The heyday of this style that had been lasting from the year 1720 to 1760 coincides with a period of change in absolutism. The aristocrats, who otherwise had been very obsessed with their own representations, then ordered pictures, which pleased rather by their playful, intimate and hidden allegorical contents. The artist Antoine Watteau was a master of this art, based in France. His images captured the spirit of the times: They included the lovely vivid wishes and the lifestyle of the upper class. With these pictures, the upper class practiced a denial of the actual state. The desire of these clients fleeing from reality aims to eternal youth, jovial harmonious celebrations and sensual-erotic love. Other masters of this painting style were François Boucher and Jean-Honoré Fragonard in France and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in Italy, whose wall and ceiling paintings have taken an important significance in the Rococo art. Virtually all areas of art craftsmanship experienced a big boost with this new style. Large porcelain manufactories gratefully adapted to the lovely, decorative design features of Rococo, and architecture showed specific new forms, above all in Germany. In this context, Dominikus Zimmermann and the Asam brothers designed great church buildings in southern Germany.
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 Fragonard, Jean Honore |
Baldung, Hans |
Lancret, Nicolas |
| Liotard, Jean Etienne |
Longhi, Pietro |
Hogarth, William |
| Boucher, Francois |
Watteau, Jean Antoine |
Ricci, Sebastiano |
| Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista |
Chardin, Jean Simeon |
Gainsborough, Thomas |
| Guardi, Francesco |
Greuze, Jean Baptiste |
Wolf, Carspar |
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Rococo
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Oil Paintings