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| 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.
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur abducting Satyress 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur abducting Satyress 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur abducting Nymph 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur abducting a man, pursued by a woman 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur and Satyrs 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur and Satyress embracing 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur and Satyress seated together 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur and Satyress reclining together 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur with Satyrs 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Satyrs carrying baskets of provisions 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Satyress chasing birds 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Bearded Man with a battle-ax and two dead Satyrs 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur fighting Lions 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur fighting Hydra 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur and Satyr 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur led by Satyr 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaurs with Satyress 1780s-90s drawing British Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur lifting young Satyr 1780s-90s drawing Metropolitan Museum |
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| Giandomenico Tiepolo Centaur with Amazon and Cherubs 1760s drawing Prado |