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Giambattista Tiepolo--146 Master Drawings

By Blagoy Kiroff

Book information

Publisher
Blagoy Kiroff
Year
2015
ISBN
9786050379754
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
14 MB (14625939 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2023-01-09 13:59:39
Art; Nonfiction; ART010000

Description

Giambattista Tiepolo was the last of the great Venetian decorators, the purest exponent of the Italian Rococo, and arguably the greatest painter of the 18th century. Tiepolo was equally prized as a draftsman: his powers of invention were boundless and his facility without equal. His enormous output of frescoes and altarpieces was partly due to his practice (like Rubens before him) of painting small 'modelli' which, when approved by the client, could be carried out by his skilled assistants under his own supervision. Scores of these modelli and sketches survive, together with hundreds of drawings. He painted very few portraits. He also etched many plates, and, with Marco Ricci, was one of the founders of the great school of 18-century Venetian etchers.

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