Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770
Title:
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770
Author:
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770. author.
ISBN:
9780870998119
9780870998126
9780810965058
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : color illustrations ; 32 cm.
General Note:
Catalog of an exhibition at the Museo del Settecento veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice on Sept. 5 - Dec. 9, 1996, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York from Jan. 22 Apr. 27, 1997.
Exhibition title: Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770.
Contents:
Foreword / Preface and Acknowledgments / Giambattista Tiepolo: "Painting's True Magician" / Giambattista Tiepolo: A Meditation on History, Time, and Death / Tiepolo and the Artistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Europe / A Documented Chronology of Tiepolo's Life and Work / The Early Years: 1716-1730: Becoming Tiepolo / Secular Commissions: Tiepolo as a Painter of History and Mythology and as a Decorator / Religious Commissions: Tiepolo as a Religious Artist / Portraits and Fantasy Heads: Tiepolo and the "Art" of Portraiture / Modelli, Capricci, and Prints: The Fiery Poetic Fantasy of Giambattista Tiepolo
Abstract:
A catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition in a decade of the work of Giambattista Tiepolo, the most brilliant artist of eighteenth-century Venice.
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