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| Allegorical Scene in Clouds 1761 |
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| Allegorical Scene in Clouds 1761 |
A small collection of wash drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) – clan patriarch, style innovator, and present-day darling of art historians. This first segment – with scenes set in the sky among clouds – can be traced to finished motifs and figures in the artist's innumerable surviving ceiling frescoes located all over Europe. The latter group – with figures bound to earth by ordinary mortal gravity – similarly invite comparison to mythical and occult imagery from the artist's many etchings (appearing here tomorrow).
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| Mercury c. 1725 |
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| Apollo & Hyacinthus 1750s |
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| Daphne c. 1725 |
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| Two Soldiers 1740s |
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| Soldiers & Monument c. 1743-45 |
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| Soldier & Elder 1740s |
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| Magician c. 1725 |
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| Magician & Youth 1740s |
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| Design for Inkstand c. 1740-45 |
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| Townscape c. 1757-59 |