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 (xv, 398 pages) illustrations (some color)

Distribution:

Distributed by Harry N. Abrams [1996]

Place of Publication:

New York Metropolitan Museum of Art : [1996]

System Details:

Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Summary:

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 every work shown, eight American and European authorities illuminate his formation (still poorly understood); his mastery of mythological and poetic subjects; his deeply moving religious

Pictures; his rare excursions into portraiture and studies of ideal heads; and the process by which he proceeded from initial ideas - realized in dazzling small-scale oil sketches - to large canvases and frescoes. Written for the scholar and general reader alike, these texts are lavishly supported by illustrations of Tiepolo's works and those of his predecessors and contemporaries. A documented chronology of Tiepolo's life and art, detailed provenances, references, and a.

Bibliography are provided

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:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and indexes

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010

Print version record

Other Format:

Print version Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770. Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770

OCLC:

676862581