Italian Rococo art

Art of Italy
Periods
Etruscan Ancient Roman Gothic Renaissance Mannerism Baroque Rococo Neoclassical and 19th century Modern and contemporary
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Trecento - Quattrocento - Cinquecento - Seicento
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Venice Biennale - Rome Quadriennale
Major works
The Tribute Money (Masaccio) - Botticelli's Venus - Primavera - Mona Lisa - The Last Supper - Annunciation (Leonardo) - Sistine Chapel ceiling - Sistine Madonna - Pietà - The Last Judgment - The Creation of Adam - David (Michelangelo) - The School of Athens - The Battle of San Romano - Venus of Urbino - David (Donatello) - The Calling of St. Matthew - Unique Forms of Continuity in Space
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Bolognese school - Ferrarese school - Forlivese school - Florentine school - Lucchese and Pisan School - Sienese school - Venetian school
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Renaissance - Mannerism - Baroque - I Macchiaioli - Metaphysical art - Futurism - Arte Povera - Novecento Italiano - Pittura infamante - Purismo - Transavantgarde - Scuola Romana
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Italian architecture - Sculpture of Italy - Timeline of Italian artists to 1800 - Raphael Rooms

Italian Rococo art refers to painting and the plastic arts in Italy during the Rococo period, which went from about the early/mid-18th to the late 18th century.

History and background

Italian Rococo was mainly inspired by 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.

The leading artistic centres during the Rococo in Italy were Venice, Genoa and Rome. Most Italian Rococo artists came from Venice, such as Canaletto, Tiepolo, Guardi, Piazzetta and Bellotto, but also from Rome and Genoa, such as Piranesi and Pannini. Artists such as Castiglione and Alessandro Magnasco brought the vogue of Rococo art to Genoa, and Neapolitan Rococo was mainly based on landscapes and naturalistic themes. Canaletto and Tiepolo were among the most prominent painters of the age, and they painted many frescos and cityscapes (particularly Canaletto).

List of painters

A list of Italian Rococo painters:, Sirio Antonio Africa, Jacopo Amigoni, Marcello Bacciarelli, Antonio Balestra, Francesco Bambocci, Pompeo Batoni, Antonio Bellucci, Bernardo Bellotto, Giovanni Antonio Canal, (or il Canaletto), Carlo Innocenzo Carloni, Andrea Casali, Placido Costanzi, Giovanni Antonio Cucchi, Carlo Angelo dal Verme, Antonio De Giorgi, Stefano Fabbrini, Federico Ferrari, Francesco Fontebasso, Francesco Liani, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Corrado Giaquinto, Ignazio Hughford, Andrea Locatelli, Pietro Longhi, Giovanni Battista Lusieri, Alessandro Magnasco, Mauro Soderini, Giuseppe Moriani, Francesco de Mura, Domenico Pellegrini, Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Antonio Pillori, Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Giovanni Paolo Panini, Ferdinando Porta, Michele Rocca, Pietro Antonio Rotari, Giovanni Scajario, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Stefano Torelli, Francesco Zuccarelli, Francesco Zugno.

Gallery

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  Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's Allegory of the Planets and Continents

• Canaletto Return of the Bucentoro to the Molo on Ascension Day, 1732. Royal Collection. Windsor..jpg

  One of Canaletto's views of Venice