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GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (1692-1769)

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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 964 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TIEPOLO (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 . See also: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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