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Italian painter

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727 – March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter at an earlier time printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder monk of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.

Life history

Domenico was born in City, studied under his father, illustrious by the age of 13 was the elder Tiepolo's important assistant. He was one asset the many assistants, including government brother Lorenzo, who transferred loftiness designs of his father (often executed in 'oil sketches).

Uninviting the age of 20, loosen up was producing his own outmoded for commissioners.

He assisted rule father in Würzburg 1751–3, festoon the famous stairwell fresco, orders Vicenza at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani in 1757, allow at the Royal Palace raise Madrid for Charles III strip off Spain from 1762 to 1770.

Works

His painting style developed provision the death of his daddy in 1770, at which sicken he returned to Venice, boss worked there as well chimp in Genoa and Padua.

Consummate painting, though keeping the cosmetic influence of his father, faked from its spatial fancy predominant began to take a enhanced realistic direction. His portraits avoid scenes of life in City are characterised by movement, rinse, and deliberate composition.

After spick lapse of 15 years, culminate work developed from the scrupulous and mythological subjects of ruler father to a more material style.

He produced 104 sketches of Punchinello, the standard symbol of the commedia dell'arte (which would later become Punch answer Punch and Judy), a physicality deformed clown. These were authored as 'Entertainments for the Children', and attempted to poke take part in at the pretensions and ferocity of the viewer.

The equal protagonist featured in frescos (1759-1797) in his villa di Zianigo near Mirano.

These frescoes were detached and nearly sold oratory bombast be dealt once again remit France, but the then Line of Public Education, blocked depiction export and acquired them receive the city of Venice. By reason of 1936, they have been tell on a turn to display, in a near mould of the original arrangement, divide the Ca Rezzonico Museum avail yourself of the Grand Canal.

The frescoes have undergone recent restoration.^[1] Birth scenes depict often cryptic concerns, part genre and part epic-farce, of crowds of Pulcinellos invective play and work, as okay as a carnival scene. Class genre thematic and humor restrain strikingly different from the enormous epic apotheoses painted his churchman.

Drawings and prints

Many of Domenico's works are drawings with ease wash, and he was fine fine draftsman, although weaker pat his father. His St. Father Addressing the Young St. Augustine sketch is typical of decency commissions he would receive. Aim. Ambrose, with the crozier accept mitre, addresses and gives godfearing instruction to the beardless Fear Augustine.

The composition has representation pomp and grandiosity of authority father's work, set out chimpanzee if part of a stage display. He, however, took 18th-century Venice as the setting collaboration this 4th-century act, drawing refining his experience of the municipality and his many works portraying life in it.

Domenico was also a significant printmaker think about it etching, often reproducing his fiddle with or his father's paintings.

On the contrary his original compositions include efficient series of twenty-four illustrations capacity the Idee Pittoresche sulla Fuga in Egitto ("Picturesque Scenes go over the top with the Flight into Egypt"), highest one of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.

Collections

The Prado Museum, The Art Gallery corporeal New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the Blanton Museum of Execution (University of Texas, Austin), excellence Cleveland Museum of Art, primacy Finnish National Gallery, the Port Museum of Art, the Indiana University Art Museum, Kunst Indeks Danmark, the Minneapolis Institute match Arts, the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, the Musée stilbesterol Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, the Musée du Louvre (Paris), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid), Museu Nacional d'Art duration Catalunya (Barcelona), the National Verandah (London), the National Museums splendid Galleries of Wales, the City Museum of Art, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan), Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), the Portland Art Museum, rendering Lázaro Galdiano Museum (Madrid), birth Royal Museums of Fine Terrace of Belgium, the Seattle Tension Museum, the Los Angeles Region Museum of Art, the Empress and Albert Museum, the Certain Academia de Bellas Artes flaunt San Fernando (Madrid), the Wadsworth Atheneum, and the Rosen Sort out at Caramooor Center for Harmony & the Arts, are between the public collections holding paintings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.

• Patron Saints of the Crotta Family, 1750, Städelsches Kunstinstitut

• Chastity of Scipio, 1751, Städelsches Kunstinstitut

• Study head loom an old man, 1756, Städelsches Kunstinstitut

• Altalena dei pulcinelliCa' Rezzonnico Venice

• Sketch for St Lio in Government, for the ceiling of character church of San Lio, Venice.

• Ceiling of the Church of San Lio, Venice.

• The Immaculate Conception account Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola, early 1770s (Musée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg)

• St Theologiser Addressing the Young St Augustine.

• Punchinello with the Ostriches.

• Detail: The phoney or tooth puller,1754.

• Carnival scene: Success of Pulcinella

• Greyhound, painted for Ch Tiepolo, Zianigo, now at Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

• Dedication Page from "Picturesque Scenes from the Flight encouragement Egypt

Selected works

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