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Tiepolo Pink
Tiepolo Pink
Author: Roberto Calasso
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 Würzburg 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 him?but though ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780307267665
ISBN-10: 0307267660
Publication Date: 10/20/2009
Pages: 320
Edition: 1
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Publisher: Knopf
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback
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Stunning, electric art criticism. Calasso seems to have read everything, and he brings his fascinating voice and piercing eye to that last gasp of the baroque, G. B. Tiepolo. The central section, on Tiepolo's etchings, is especially enthralling, and one wished that the publishers had included many more larger and clearer illustrations, especially of the less well-known graphic work. Fairly high-octane art history, but a must for anyone who loves Tiepolo.


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