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TIEPOLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1692-1769)

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TIEPOLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1692-1769) , See also:Italian painter; was See also:born at See also:Venice, and acquired the rudiments of his See also:art from Gregorio Lazzarini, and probably from Piazzetta, though` the decisive See also:influence on the formation of his See also:style was the study of See also:Paolo Veronese's sumptuous paintings. When hardly dut of his teens he See also:developed an extraordinary facility of brushwork, and proved himself, as a See also:fresco-painter, a colourist of the first See also:order, though this See also:early mastery of technique made him See also:fee- I quently neglect. See also:form and See also:composition. The more solid qualities of Paolo Veronese—See also:depth of thought and See also:balance of See also:design —are frequently wanting in his See also:work, but he approaches the earlier See also:master in richness of See also:colour and in the management of difficult effects of See also:lighting. He decorated many Venetian churches and palaces with ceilings and frescoes full of turbulent See also:movement and See also:rich colour, extending his operations to the near cities of the mainland and to See also:Bergamo (See also:Colleoni See also:Chapel) and See also:Milan (See also:ceiling at Palazzo Chierici). In 1750 he proceeded to See also:Wurzburg to paint the magnificent ceilings and frescoes at the See also:archbishop's See also:palace. From 1753 to about 1763 he worked again at Venice and in the cities of See also:north-See also:east See also:Italy, until he was summoned to See also:Madrid by See also:Charles III. to paint some frescoes for the royal palace. He died at Madrid in 1769. He was the last important figure in Venetian art, and at the same See also:time the initiator of the See also:baroque See also:period. Tiepolo's altarpieces and easel pictures show more clearly even than his frescoes how deeply he was imbued with the spirit of Paolo Veronese, for in these smaller See also:works he paid more See also:attention to the balance of composition, whilst retaining the luminosity of his colour harmonies. The See also:majority of his works, both in fresco and in See also:oils, are to be found in Venice in the churches of S. Aloise, SS. Apostoli, Gesuati, SS.

Giovanni e Paolo, in the Scalzi, and the Scuola del See also:

Carmine, the See also:Academy, and the Palazzi Labia, Rezzonico, and Quirini-Stampalia, and the See also:Doge's Palace. Besides the cities already mentioned, See also:Padua, See also:Udine, See also:Parma and See also:Vicenza boast of See also:fine examples of his work. At the See also:National See also:Gallery are two designs for altarpieces, a " De-position from the See also:Cross," " See also:Esther at the See also:Throne of See also:Ahasuerus," and " The See also:Marriage of See also:Marie de Medicis." Two versions of " See also:Christ and the Adulteress " are in the collection of Dr L. See also:Richter. Other easel pictures by Tiepolo are at the Louvre, and at the See also:Berlin and See also:Munich galleries. His paintings in Madrid belong to the closing years of his See also:life and show signs of waning See also:power. Tiepolo also executed some notable work with the See also:etching-See also:needle, the See also:list comprising some fifty plates. His two sons, Giovanni Domenico (about 1726–1804) and Lorenzo, did not attain to his excellence. See See also:Les Tiepolo, by See also:Henry de Chennevieres (See also:Paris, 1898); and Pompeo Molmenti, G. B. Tiepolo (Milan, 1910).

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