Tiepolo Pink

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Tiepolo Pink

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the WÃ¼rzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around himâ€”but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him, they failed to understand him.
Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepoloâ€™s series of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi, but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting them as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepoloâ€™s art. Blooming ephebes, female Satyrs, Oriental sages, owls, snakes: we will find them all, as well as Punchinello and Death, within the pages of this book, along with Venus, Time, Moses, numerous angels, Cleopatra, and Beatrice of Burgundyâ€”a motley company always on the go.
Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather, he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed with a fluid, seemingly effortless style, Tiepolo was the last incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue of sprezzatura, the art of not seeming artful.

Country	USA
Author	Roberto Calasso
Binding	Paperback
Brand	Brand: Knopf
EAN	9780375712081
Edition	Reprint
Feature	Used Book in Good Condition
ISBN	0375712089
Label	Knopf
Manufacturer	Knopf
NumberOfItems	1
NumberOfPages	320
PublicationDate	2011-09-06
Publisher	Knopf
ReleaseDate	2011-09-06
Studio	Knopf

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