Domenico Tiepolo, Master Draftsman |
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| Author:
| Tiepolo, Giovanni B.
Gealt, Adelheid M. |
| As told to:
| Knox, George |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-33330-8 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 1997 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Hardback |
| List Price: | AUD $139.00 |
Book Description:
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ÒWith its scholarly apparatus, the book will be an essential reference tool. It should also serve to introduce a wider audience to the pleasures, and to the insights into 18th-century culture, that this still too little appreciated master draftsman has to offer.Ó ÑChoice ÒFew visual artists have made such an extended excursion into so weird and wonderful a realm of their own invention.Ó ÑInternational Herald Tribune ÒThis is an amazing catalog, one that shows how inventive the artist...
More DescriptionÒWith its scholarly apparatus, the book will be an essential reference tool. It should also serve to introduce a wider audience to the pleasures, and to the insights into 18th-century culture, that this still too little appreciated master draftsman has to offer.Ó ÑChoice ÒFew visual artists have made such an extended excursion into so weird and wonderful a realm of their own invention.Ó ÑInternational Herald Tribune ÒThis is an amazing catalog, one that shows how inventive the artist was . . .Ó ÑUmbrella This richly illustrated, thoroughly researched catalog accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to a comprehensive examination of drawings by Domenico Tiepolo (1727Ð1804). Chief draftsman in the studio of his famous father, Giambattista Tiepolo, Domenico achieved personal distinction as a brilliant and original artist with a fascination for storytelling in his drawings.