Domenico Tiepolo Master Draftsman |
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| Author:
| Gealt, Adelheid M.
Tiepolo, Giovanni B. |
| As told to:
| Knox, George |
| ISBN: | 978-0-253-21129-3 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1997 |
| Publisher: | Indiana University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $39.95 |
Book Description:
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""With 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."" -- Choice
""Few visual artists have made such an extended excursion into so weird and wonderful a realm of their own invention."" -- International Herald Tribune
""This is an amazing catalog, one that...
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""With 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."" -- Choice
""Few visual artists have made such an extended excursion into so weird and wonderful a realm of their own invention."" -- International Herald Tribune
""This is an amazing catalog, one that shows how inventive the artist was..."" -- Umbrella
This richly illustrated, thoroughly researched catalog accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to a comprehensive examination of drawings by Domenico Tiepolo (1727--1804). 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.