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Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741 (Clarendon Studies in the History of Art)

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This book is largely based on a 1994 doctoral disserttion by another author submitted at the University of Chicago. The book covers most but not all of Pellegrini's travels throughout Europe when he was famous as a history painter and decorator, having worked in England, France,Holland ,Belgium, Germany, Austria and possibly Prague during various trips out of Venice. The book does not cover the majority of his works in Venice but uses them for some comparisons. Pellegrini can be considered the founder of the Venetian Rococo style of painting and without his works in the early 18th century, the styles in France and Italy would have been different due to his departure from the darker and more somber style of the late 17th century. Tiepolo, for example, owes a great deal to Pellegini's pioneering style.