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    Giovanni Tiepolo: Drawings
    Giovanni Tiepolo: Drawings
    Giovanni Tiepolo: Drawings
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    Giovanni Tiepolo: Drawings

    By Richard Donaldson

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    The Venetian artist Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo was perhaps the greatest painter and draftsman of 18th-century in Europe. He was the classical example of the Italian Rococo. Tiepolo was equally prized as a painter and as a draftsman: his power of invention was unlimited and his skill without equivalent. His huge output of frescoes and altarpieces was somewhat due to his practice, like Rubens, of painting small 'modelli' (sketches) which, when approved by the client, could be carried out by his trained pupils under his own control. Many of these modelli and sketches survive, together with hundreds of his drawings. He also etched many plates, and, with Marco Ricci, was one of the founders of the great school of 18-century Venetian etchers.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRichard Donaldson
    Release dateJan 14, 2015
    ISBN9786050348781
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    Giovanni Tiepolo - Richard Donaldson

    Giovanni Tiepolo: Drawings

    By Richard Donaldson

    Foreword and Annotations by Richard Donaldson

    First Edition

    Copyright © 2015 by Richard Donaldson

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    Giovanni Tiepolo: Drawings

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    Foreword

    Giovanni Baptista (Giambattista) Tiepolo was Italian painter, part of a Venetian family of painters, draughtsmen and etchers. The greatest member of the family was Giambattista Tiepolo, the sixth and last child of Domenico Tiepolo, a merchant, and Orsetta, whose maiden name is not known. He was baptized Giovanni Battista after his godfather, Giovanni Battista Doriа, a Venetian nobleman, on 16 April 1696 in S Pietro di Castello, the family's local church and at that time the cathedral of Venice. Although their name belonged to one of the oldest and most distinguished of Venetian patrician families, this Tiepolo family did not claim noble lineage. However, perhaps through business connections, not only Giambattista but some of his siblings acquired highborn godparents. Domenico died about a year after Giambattista's birth, and it is possible that Orsetta brought up her children - all fewer than ten at the time of their father's death - in straitened circumstances. In 1719 Giambattista married Maria Cecilia Guardi, sister of the painters Giovanni Antonio and Francesco Guardi. Of their ten children, four daughters and three sons survived to adulthood. One of the sons, Giuseppe, entered the priesthood and the other two,

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