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Born March 10, 1656 • Palermo • Italy
Died February 27, 1732 (aged 75) • Palermo • Italy
Movement / Style Rococo
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Egid Quirin Asam
German architect
Steinhausen: pilgrimage church
Dominikus Zimmermann
German architect
Etching of a design for a counterpane by Pineau, c. 1740
Nicolas Pineau
French sculptor and interior designer
Asam, Cosmas Damian: The Ascension of Christ
Cosmas Damian Asam
German painter
Grinling Gibbons.
Grinling Gibbons
British sculptor
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Jean-Jacques Caffiéri
French sculptor
Jean-Antoine Houdon: Diana
Jean-Antoine Houdon
French sculptor
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Germain Boffrand
French architect
François Boucher: Cupid a Captive
François Boucher
French artist
Etching of a design for a table from his book, Ornamens Inventory, by Jean Berain the Elder, c. 1670–1700.
Jean Berain, the Elder
French designer and painter
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Robert de Cotte
French architect
“The Bather,” marble statue by Étienne-Maurice Falconet, 1757; in the Louvre, Paris
Étienne-Maurice Falconet
French sculptor
“Glory of Louis XIV,” marble relief by Antoine Coysevox, c. 1686; in the Salon de la Guerre, Versailles, Fr.
Antoine Coysevox
French sculptor
Clodion: Cupid and Psyche
Clodion
French sculptor
Aleijadinho: Prophet sculpture
Aleijadinho
Brazilian sculptor and architect
Guardian Angel, painted wood sculpture by Ignaz Günther, 1763; in the Bürgersaal, Munich.
Ignaz Günther
German sculptor
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Juste-Aurèle Meissonier
French architect and goldsmith
Columbine, figure from the commedia dell'arte, enamel and gilt on porcelain by Bustelli, c. 1755–60; in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Franz Anton Bustelli
German artist
rocaille decorated doors
François de Cuvilliés the Elder
French architect
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Filippo Caffieri
Italian sculptor

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