Volume 44, Number 2 · February 6, 1997
In Love with Light
By Francis Haskell
EXHIBITIONS AND WORKS ON TIEPOLO DISCUSSED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 1996, and the Metropolitan Museum, New York, January 24-April 27, 1997
Exhibition at the Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, September 5-December 9,
Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770
Catalog of the exhibition, edited by Keith Christiansen
Metropolitan Museum of Art/Abrams, 398 pp., $45.00 (paper)
Der Himmel auf Erden—Tiepolo in Würzburg February 15-May 19, 1996
Exhibition at the Prince-Bishop's Residenz, Würzburg, Germany.
Heaven on Earth: Tiepolo—Masterpieces of the Würzburg Years
by Peter O. Krückmann
Prestel, 144 pp., $39.95 (paper)
Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections the Pierpont Morgan Library
Catalog of the exhibition at the Harvard University Art Museums and, by Bernard Aikema, translated by Andrew McCormick
Harvard University Art Museums/Pierpont Morgan Library, 345 pp., $39.95 (paper)
When in 1770 the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo died, very suddenly, in Madrid (to which he had been summoned to fresco the royal palace), he was already aged seventy-four, and he must certainly have realized that he had been, for at least a generation or so, the most admired Italian painter of his time. But he could not possibly have foreseen the two factors that were to weigh most heavily with posterity in appraising the nature of his genius: in the first place, within less than thirty years it would be evident that the Europe that had acclaimed him with such enthusiasm had vanished forever; and secondly, as the decades succeeded each other thereafter, it would become ever more apparent that he was to be the very last Italian painter to make a major impact on the art and taste of the world.
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