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| Uniform title: | Rosa Tiepolo. |
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English Italian |
| Edition: | First American edition. |
| Imprint: | New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2009] |
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| Summary: | The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like those at the Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him--but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him, they failed to understand him. <br>Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo's series of thirty-three bizarre and haunting etchings, the "Capricci" and the "Scherzi," but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting them as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo's art. Blooming ephebes, female Satyrs, Oriental sages, owls, snakes: we will find them all, as well as Punchinello and Death, within the pages of this book, along with Venus, Time, Moses, numerous angels, Cleopatra, and Beatrice of Burgundy--a motley company always on the go. <br>Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather, he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed with a fluid, seemingly effortless style, Tiepolo was the last incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue "sprezzatura," the art of not seeming artful. |
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| Item Description: | "Originally published in Italy as Il rosa Tiepolo by Adelphi Edizioni, Milan, in 2006"--T.p. verso. |
| Physical Description: | 288 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780307267665 0307267660 |
| Author Notes: | publisher of Adelphi. He is the author of The Ruin of Kasch , The marriage of Cadmus and Harmony , which was the winner of the Prix Veillon and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Etranger, and Ka . |