Sunday, August 14, 2016

Giandomenico Tiepolo centaur drawings

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur abducting Satyress
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) effectively abandoned his painting career during the last two decades of the 18th century. After the death of his famous father Giambattista in 1770, vitality departed from the Venetian Rococo style itself. Neo-classicism was making a strong claim to the future, uncongenial as the change must have been to Giandomenico. His father had left the family financially secure. Consequently the son could retreat into Arcadian fantasy, cultivating elaborate cycles of personal and private drawings that celebrated his final freedom from patrons.

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur abducting Satyress
1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur abducting Satyress
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur abducting Nymph
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur abducting a man, pursued by a woman
 1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur and Satyrs
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur and Satyress embracing
1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur and Satyress seated together
 1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur and Satyress reclining together 
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
 Centaur with Satyrs
1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Satyrs carrying baskets of provisions
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Satyress chasing birds
 1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Bearded Man with a battle-ax and two dead Satyrs
 1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur fighting Lions
1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur fighting Hydra
1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur and Satyr
1780s-90s
 drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur led by Satyr
1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaurs with Satyress
1780s-90s
drawing
British Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur lifting young Satyr
 1780s-90s
drawing
Metropolitan Museum

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Centaur with Amazon and Cherubs
1760s
drawing
Prado