Rococo style summary

Thomas Chippendale was one of the leading cabinetmakers of 18th-century England and one of the most perplexing figures in the history of furniture. His name is synonymous with the Anglicized Rococo style. Nothing is known of Chippendale’s early life until his marriage to Catherine Redshaw in London

Canaletto was an Italian topographical painter whose masterful expression of atmosphere in his detailed views (vedute) of Venice and London and of English country homes influenced succeeding generations of landscape artists. Canaletto was born into a noble family whose coat of arms he occasionally

Jean-Honoré Fragonard was a French Rococo painter whose most familiar works, such as The Swing (1767), are characterized by delicate hedonism. Fragonard was the son of a haberdasher’s assistant. The family moved to Paris about 1738, and in 1747 the boy was apprenticed to a lawyer, who, noticing his

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was a great Italian painter of the 18th century. His luminous, poetic frescoes, while extending the tradition of Baroque ceiling decoration, epitomize the lightness and elegance of the Rococo period. Tiepolo’s father, who had been engaged in the shipping business, died in