Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 / edited by Keith Christiansen.

This volume, which accompanies the tricentenary exhibition of Tiepolo's work held at the Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico in Venice and The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, explores the various aspects of Tiepolo's artistic production. In essays and in entries on e...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770
Corporate Authors: Museo del Settecento veneziano, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
Other Authors: Christiansen, Keith
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., ©1996.
Subjects:
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, > 1696-1770 > Exhibitions.
Exhibition catalogs.
Table of Contents:
  • Foreword / Philippe de Montebello, Giovanna Nepi Scire and Giandomenico Romanelli
  • Preface and Acknowledgments / Keith Christiansen
  • Giambattista Tiepolo: "Painting's True Magician" / Adriano Mariuz
  • Giambattista Tiepolo: A Meditation on History, Time, and Death / Giandomenico Romanelli
  • Tiepolo and the Artistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Europe / Donald Posner
  • A Documented Chronology of Tiepolo's Life and Work / Andrea Bayer
  • The Early Years: 1716-1730: Becoming Tiepolo / Filippo Pedrocco
  • Secular Commissions: Tiepolo as a Painter of History and Mythology and as a Decorator / William L. Barcham
  • Religious Commissions: Tiepolo as a Religious Artist / Catherine Whistler
  • Portraits and Fantasy Heads: Tiepolo and the "Art" of Portraiture / Diane De Grazia
  • Modelli, Capricci, and Prints: The Fiery Poetic Fantasy of Giambattista Tiepolo / Keith Christiansen.

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