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In France and England, the Rococo took a mainly profane form, but in other regions of Catholic Europe, especially in southern Germany, it left admirable religious monuments, [29] the same happening in Brazil, where painters from the Minas Gerais region, led by Master Ataíde, formulated through a late Rococo and naive flavor the first school of ...
Italian Rococo was mainly inspired by the rocaille or French Rococo, since France was the founding nation of that particular style. The styles of the Italian Rococo were very similar to those of France. The style in Italy was usually lighter and more feminine than Italian Baroque art, and became the more popular art form of the settecento.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (/ t i ˈ ɛ p ə l oʊ / tee-EP-ə-loh, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo, ˈtjeː-]; [1] 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
Artists from Genoa were influential during the 17th century. Many painters emigrated to either Venice, Florence, or Rome. Prominent stimuli to the local artists were prolonged visits to the town of artists from Spain and countries north of Italy, including Velázquez , Van Dyck , and Pierre Puget .
Rococo, less commonly Roccoco (/ r ə ˈ k oʊ k oʊ / rə-KOH-koh, US also / ˌ r oʊ k ə ˈ k oʊ / ROH-kə-KOH; French: or ⓘ), also known as Late Baroque, is an exceptionally ornamental and dramatic style of architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry, scrolling curves, gilding, white and pastel colours, sculpted moulding, and trompe-l'œil frescoes to create surprise and ...
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