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Jean Antoine Watteau

Jean Antoine Watteau (UK: ˈ w ɒ t oʊ , US: w ɒ ˈ t oʊ , French: [ʒɑ̃ ɑ̃twan vato]; baptised October 10, 1684 – died July 18, 1721), commonly referred to as Antoine Watteau, was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement, as seen in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens.He revitalized the waning Baroque style, shifting it to the ...

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Jean Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 July 18, 1721) Jean Antoine Watteau (October 10, 1684 July 18, 1721) was a French painter whose brief career spurred the revival of interest in colour and movement (in the tradition of Correggio and Rubens), and revitalized the waning Baroque idiom, which eventually became known as Rococo. He is credited with inventing the genre of fêtes galantes ...

Watteau 1684 1721

Watteau: 1684–1721. Margaret Morgan Grasselli and Pierre Rosenberg, with the assistance of Nicole Parmentier Published 1984 578 pages. Published on the 300th anniversary of his birth, this catalog accompanied the first international loan exhibition devoted to the art of the great French 18th century artist Antoine Watteau.

Antoine Watteau | French painter | Britannica

Antoine Watteau, French painter who typified the lyrically charming and graceful style of the Rococo. Much of his work reflects the influence of the commedia dell’arte and the opéra ballet (e.g., “The French edy,” 1716). Antoine Watteau was the son of a roof tiler. According to early biographers

Jean Antoine Watteau (Getty Museum)

The son of a roof tiler, Jean Antoine Watteau showed a penchant for drawing and painting early in life. At eighteen he was apprenticed to a painter in his native town of Valenciennes. Soon after, with little money and few possessions, he made his way to Paris, where he made a living by copying the works of Titian and Paolo Veronese.