Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista 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. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain.
Self-portrait (1750–1753), from the ceiling fresco in the Würzburg Residence
The Glory of St. Dominic, 1723
Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva shows Massiva, the nephew of a prince of Numidia, being released after capture by Scipio Africanus. Walters Art Museum.
The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743–44, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Rococo painting represents the expression in painting of an aesthetic movement that flourished in Europe between the early and late 18th century, migrating to America and surviving in some regions until the mid-19th century. The painting of this movement is divided into two sharply differentiated camps. One forms an intimate, carefree visual document of the way of life and worldview of the eighteenth-century European elites, and the other, adapting constituent elements of the style to the monumental decoration of churches and palaces, served as a means of glorifying faith and civil power.
Jean-Honoré Fragonard: The swing, 1766
Master Ataíde: Ascension of Jesus, 1827
Maurice-Quentin de La Tour: Madame de Pompadour in her Study, 1755
Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin: The Laundress, 1735. An example of the coetaneous but opposed Rococo current