Identifier: historyofpainti03macf (find matches)
Title: A history of painting... / with a preface by Frank Brangwyn
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Macfall, Haldane, 1860-1928
Subjects: Painting Painters
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes and Co.
Contributing Library: PIMS - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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n had brought to Naples. TIEPOLO 1692 - 1769 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, or Gian BattistaTiepolo, was the most distinguished of the Venetianbaroque painters. Born in Venice in 1692, Tiepolo wentfirst to the studio of a mediocre painter but excellentteacher, Gregorio Lazzarini, thence to Piazzetta, buthe had the whole achievement of Venice before his eyesfor splendid schooling, and the art and style of PaoloVeronese drew his homage. Tiepolo was but a youth oftwenty when he began to be employed in Venice and itsneighbourhood on considerable works. He was close onhis fifties when, in 1740, he was called to Milan, and tenyears later, 1750, he went to Wiirtzburg to paint the decora-tions of the Archbishops Palace thereat. He was sixty-onewhen he returned to Venice in 1753, but eight years later,in 1761, close on seventy, he set out for Madrid, calledthereto by King Charles in. of Spain, to paint the frescoes70 VII TIEPOLO 1692-1760 BAROQUE PAINTERS OF VENICE THE FINDING OF MOSES (Edinburgh)
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OF PAINTING of the Royal Palace. He died at Madrid on the 25th of WHEREINApril 1769. WE TURN Tiepolo caught the high decorative sense of the baroque ASIDEart in splendid fashion; and in his oil-paintings, as may be AWHILEseen at the Scottish National Gallery, he reveals that he has FROM OURcaught also the vigorous spirit of the Tenebrosi. His art has JOURNEYlittle in common with the paganism of the great Venetians I?L vicrrof the Renaissance—he is essentially of his own bewigged VFNITFand dandiacal age. By the seventeen-hundreds the churchwas become a mere form, and the religious pictures ofTiepolo utter this mere formality in clear fashion. Imagina-tive, inventive, thoroughly equipped for the practice of hisart, Tiepolo flung his great aerial groups of figures on ceilingand on wall. Of character and depth of insight he knewlittle, and with them he was concerned less. But of move-ment and aerial perspective he was a rare master, and hecould handle drapery with consummate sense of st

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