Friday, May 29, 2015

Punchinello & His Lady

Punchinello & His Lady

Punchinello leaning against a Bust

Theatrical characters, indefinable exotics,sages, heroes, demigods  the familiar companions of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770).






These otherworldly and vaguely sinister wash drawings by Tiepolo are part of a large collection now housed at the Morgan Library in New York.