The art of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) represents a key chapter in the rich history of Venetian painting. Tiepolo first exhibited in his native Venice in 1716; his career ended in Madrid, where he died while employed by the King of Spain. In Venice and Madrid, throughout northern Italy, and in England, France, and Germany, Tiepolo produced paintings for churches, princes, religious orders, and private patrons. He was Italy's most important painter of the eighteenth century, and with Antoine Watteau he stands out as one of the two greatest in Europe before the artistic and intellectual watershed of the French Revolution.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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some tiepolo,
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not a master catalogue of paintings or info, but there's some info here. focuses mainly on his biblical-reglious images. i actually wanted more of his allegorical/mythological paintings, in particular his fresco The Allegory of Apollo and the Continents. None of that, nothing even like that is in this. again, this is mostly just some of the biblical paintings.
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a communion with the gods,
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When I was young I used to think that Tiepolo was a Renaissance painter.A contemporary of Raphael, I thought, perhaps a real live rival of Titian and Tintoretto. But as I found out this languorous painter was in reality an 18th C Venitian virtuoso. After a while, still in awe, I started to view him as a superb anachronism, and like he belonged, also, atop the Sistine Chapel somewhat.If Caravaggio astonishes with his inner turmoil. Tiepolo vis-a-vis seems to enjoy the purity of soul, of a monk. His brush seems pulled by a determined higher force. Christianity was sometimes his great medium, and he continuously uses every religious legend to express something divine that was in him, naturally. He is as pure as Praxiteles. And William Barcham deliniates Tiopolo's life as ordely and purposely as can be. The lucid preface, from Venice to Madrid. Tiepolo, a life, seemingly in a higher realm, dedicated to his art. But the many grandiose frescoes, beautifully illustrated here, don't need any words, really.
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