Miller, Elizabeth and Hilary Young, eds. 2016. The Arts of Living in Europe 1600–1815. London: V and
A Publishing. An excellent introduction to design and manufactured goods in the period.
Perry, Gill and Colin Cunningham, eds. 1999. Academies, Museums and Canons of Art. New Haven, CT,
and London: Yale University Press. Part 2, chapters 3–5, offer useful discussion of fine art academies and
their hierarchical values.
Scott, Katie. 1995. The Rococo Interior: Decoration and Spaces in Early EighteenthCentury Paris.
New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press. A comprehensive, indepth study of the rococo, in
its social, cultural and commercial contexts.