Wednesday, April 27, 2022

Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) - Style Inheritor

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Head of a Philosopher
ca. 1758-64
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Head of a Philosopher (detail)
ca. 1758-64
oil on canvas
Art Institute of Chicago

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Head of a Magus
ca. 1757-59
oil on canvas
Palazzo Pretorio, Prato

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Head of a Magus
ca. 1757
oil on canvas
Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa and Beatrice of Burgundy
ca. 1752-53
oil on canvas
(after Tiepolo fresco in Würzburg)
National Gallery, London

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Rebecca at the Well
1751
oil on canvas
Musée du Louvre

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Widow of Darius supplicating Alexander the Great
ca. 1750-53
oil on canvas
Detroit Institute of Arts

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Rinaldo before the image of Armida
(scene from Gerusalemme Liberata)
ca. 1791
detached fresco
(from Villa di Zianigo)
Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Holy Family with Saint
1749
detached fresco
(from Cappella di Zianigo)
Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Golgotha
ca. 1750-60
oil on canvas
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Descent from the Cross
1772
oil on canvas
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Lamentation at the Foot of the Cross
ca. 1750-60
oil on canvas
National Gallery, London

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Punchinellos in Cavalcade
1791
detached fresco (grisaille)
Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Dance in the Country
ca. 1755
oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Giambattista and Giandomenico Tiepolo
Meeting of Anthia and Habrocomes
(scene from The Ephesian Tale by Xenophon of Ephesus)
ca. 1743-44
oil on canvas
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice

"Giandomenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was one of nine children of the great 18th-century Venetian master Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770).  He spent the first half of his life by his father's side, assisting him with commissions as they travelled across Europe together.  Domenico worked with his father on the interior decorative schemes for the Würzburg Residence and Villa Valmarana near Vicenza, as well as a spectacular series of trompe l'oeil frescoes for the throne room of Charles III at the Royal Palace in Madrid.  By the 1740s, the younger Tiepolo had also begun making his own work, often on biblical themes.  But it was after 1770, when his father died in Madrid, that Domenico's art came into its own."  

– profile from Christie's sale catalog, July 2020