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6 unusual facts about Giovanni Battista Tiepolo


Antonio López García

The Grapevine (1960) evokes Tiepolo's sunlight, The Quince Tree (1962) Chardin's dusky murk, and other paintings echo Old Masters from Dürer to Degas.

Károly Lotz

Later he started on his own original works, first as a romantic landscape artist in scenes of the Alföld (the Hungarian lowland plain), and then as a creator of monumental murals and frescos in the style of the Venetian master Tiepolo.

Kehinde Wiley

Dressed in street clothes, his models were asked to assume poses from the paintings of Renaissance masters, such as Tiziano Vecellio and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Prčanj

The church has a monumental baroque facade with Corinthian and Doric columns and displays a collection of painting and sculpture worthy of its size, including works by Piazzetta, Tiepolo, Balestra, Meštrović, and numerous other artists.

Temporary Kings

Next day the conference visits the Bragadin Palace to view a ceiling painted by Tiepolo.

Valburga

The paintings of the Mount of Olives and the Way of the Cross displayed inside are by Leopold Layer (1752–1828), based on models by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.


Etching revival

By the late eighteenth century, with brilliant exceptions like Piranesi and Tiepolo, most etchings were reproductive or illustrative.

Svetlana Alpers

Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence, New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1994 (with Michael Baxandall)


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