Tiepolo: The Complete Paintings [Hardcover]

Filippo Pedrocco (Author)

Book Description

ISBN-10: 0847824764 | ISBN-13: 978-0847824762 | Publication Date: December 20, 2002

Giambattista Tiepolo's work defined the rococo period in Italy. His lush paintings, which were characterized by a light palette and loose brushwork, were favored by kings and queens and nobility throughout Italy, Germany, and Austria. This copiously illustrated volume collects his entire body of painting.

Tiepolo's work can be found in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Art Institute of Chicago; Philadelphia Museum of Art; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Isabella Stewart Gardener Museum, Boston; Detroit Institute of the Arts; Cincinnati Art Museum; Minneapolis Institute of Art; National Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore and the Cleveland Art Museum.

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About the Author

Filippo Pedrocco is an expert on Venetian painting. The author of many books and articles, including Rizzoli's Giorgione and Venetian Views, he is the director of the Museo del Settecento Veneziano in Ca'Rezzonico in Venice.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 352 pages
• Publisher: Rizzoli (December 20, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0847824764
• ISBN-13: 978-0847824762
• Product Dimensions: 11.4 x 1.4 x 13.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.4 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,657,240 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars 3 Stars for the Reproductions, February 25, 2004

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Bruno Gass (London, England) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Tiepolo: The Complete Paintings (Hardcover)

The magnificent reproductions are the only reason to buy this tremendously oversized coffee-table book. But keep a pulley-system on hand: it weighs two tons. This book is the great-grandchild of what were once known, somewhat fetishistically, as folios, lavishly produced books of reproductions too large to be accomodated vertically on library shelves and therefore shelved horizontally, often in locked cages, away from rapacious hands. Folios were brought out ceremoniously from their cages by special request, by suspicious white-gloved librarians and set up on wooden or foam stands. The ritual exercise heightened the sensation of being in the presence of something grand -- it reproduced the work of art itself, as well as the power of the sublime as experienced in the presence of the original work of art. Pedrocco's book achieves a similar effect. The text is negligible and unimaginative, but then again, who really goes to an exhibition to read the wall-texts? Lorried, pullied, or displayed on a roving stand, this is a major blockbuster on wheels.