Venetian painting, which had flourished during the High Renaissance, saw one of its final and yet most brilliant high points in the art of Giambattista Tiepolo. His monumental wall paintings adorned the most important sacred buildings and residences of the ruling houses of the period. Tiepolo's masterpieces include the fresco decorations in the bishop's palace at Wurzburg, which represent a milestone in the history of painting.
Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was the greatest Italian painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his monumental frescoes and epic altarpieces. The scale of these paintings is immense, even overpowering. Yet some of Tiepolo's finest work can be found in the small oil sketches that he often made in preparation for these grand commissions. Published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches brings together a group of the artist's oil sketches from the Courtauld Institute in London that spans his entire career and reveals the amazing confidence and fluidity with which he created these paintings. The unusual intimacy of these preparatory sketches-made directly on the canvas with no preliminary underdrawing-reveals a great artist's vigorous imagination at work. The exhibit will run from May 3, 2005, to September 4, 2005. An introductory essay situates these works within the context of eighteenth-century art and Tiepolo's life and career.
The last great artist of the Baroque era, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was a master of the Rococo style. He decorated numerous palaces across Europe with frescoes full of turbulent movement and vibrant colour. He excelled in painting magnificent ceiling frescoes, summoning aerial visions of the ancient world that have never been matched in their depth of expression and sheer scale of achievement. The inventiveness and variety that characterise his fresco cycles secure his place in the pantheon of great artists, continuing the tradition of Giotto and Michelangelo. Delphi’s Masters of Art Series presents the world’s first digital e-Art books, allowing readers to explore the works of great artists in comprehensive detail. This volume presents Tiepolo’s collected works, with concise introductions and hundreds of high quality images. (Version 1) * The collected paintings of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo – over 400 images, fully indexed and arranged in chronological and alphabetical order * Includes reproductions of rare works * Features a special ‘Highlights’ section, with concise introductions to the masterpieces, giving valuable contextual information * Enlarged ‘Detail’ images, allowing you to explore Tiepolo’s celebrated works in detail, as featured in traditional art books * Hundreds of images in colour – highly recommended for viewing on tablets and smartphones or as a valuable reference tool on more conventional eReaders * Special chronological and alphabetical contents tables for the paintings * Easily locate the artworks you wish to view CONTENTS: The Highlights Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva (c. 1720) Allegory of the Power of Eloquence (c. 1725) Frescoes for the Archbishop’s Palace, Udine (c. 1726) The Education of the Virgin (1732) The Virgin in Glory with Saints (1734) Jupiter and Danaë (1736) Saint Clement Adoring the Trinity (1736) The Institution of the Rosary (c. 1739) Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo (1742) The Transportation of the Holy House of Loreto (1744) The Banquet of Cleopatra (1744) Allegory of the Planets and Continents (c. 1753) The Death of Hyacinth (1753) Young Lady in a Tricorn Hat (c. 1760) Apollo Pursuing Daphne (c. 1760) The Apotheosis of Aeneas (1766) The Rest on the Flight into Egypt (c. 1770) The Paintings The Collected Paintings Alphabetical List of Paintings
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