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1 online resource (xv, 398 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
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monochrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and indexes. |
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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. |
| 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. |
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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. |
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Bibliography are provided. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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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 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
Metropolitan Museum of Art Watson Library Digital Collections Fulltext Titles (Customizable) |
| Subject |
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770 -- Exhibitions.
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Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770. |
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Exhibition catalogs.
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Christiansen, Keith.
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Museo del Settecento veneziano.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.)
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Print version: Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista, 1696-1770. Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770. New York : Metropolitan Museum of Art : Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, ©1996 (DLC) 96021058 (OCoLC)34958654 |
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0870998110 |
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9780870998119 |
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0870998129 (paperback) |
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9780870998126 (paperback) |
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0810965054 (Abrams) |
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9780810965058 (Abrams) |
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