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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770.

Contributor:

Christiansen, Keith.

Museo del Settecento veneziano.

Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770--Exhibitions.

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista.

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.

System Details:

Mode of Access: World Wide Web.

text file

Summary:

A catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition in a decade of the work of Giambattista Tiepolo, the most brilliant artist of eighteenth-century Venice.

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.

Notes:

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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and index.

Exhibition title: Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770.

ISBN:

0870998110

0870998129

0810965054

OCLC:

34958654