Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's four rear-view drawings of Venetian men c. 1760 capture the same types of characters that later inhabit Gioachino Rossini's opera "The Barber of Seville," while Louis-Léopold Boilly's 1823 lithograph "The Grimaces" pushes the envelope of grotesque expression while preserving the refinement of French drawing style.

Making a Mockery of It All Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011

Inspired by the city's lagoon and canals, Twombly splashed acrylic onto canvases shaped like baroque ceiling paintings, as if Monet was meeting Jackson Pollock and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.

Cy Twombly obituary 2011

The masterpiece was painted about 1725-1729 by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Venetian rococo artist, as part of a cycle of large canvases this one is 411.5 x 376.9 cm used to decorate a reception room in the Ca' Dolfin at Venice; it depicts the capture of Cathage by Scipio Aemilianus who razed the city to the ground, answering the constant demands of Cato the Elder.

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

The masterpiece was painted about 1725-1729 by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Venetian rococo artist, as part of a cycle of large canvases this one is 411.5 x 376.9 cm used to decorate a reception room in the Ca' Dolfin at Venice; it depicts the capture of Cathage by Scipio Aemilianus who razed the city to the ground, answering the constant demands of Cato the Elder.

A painting to ponder 2009

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo August 30, 1727 - March 3, 1804 was a painter and printmaker in etching, a son of the more famous artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

Archive 2009-08-01 2009

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo August 30, 1727 - March 3, 1804 was a painter and printmaker in etching, a son of the more famous artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

To Mount Tabor 2009

Only with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a pupil of G.B. Piazzetta, in the eighteenth century, does Venetian painting, with a still more perfect technic, celebrate a glorious resurrection.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

Among its many masterpieces are exceptional assemblages of the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; of the French Impressionists (the Museum owns thirty-seven Monets and twenty-one oil paintings by Cézanne); and of Vermeer, whose five canvases at the Metropolitan surpass the number at any other museum in the world.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

Among its many masterpieces are exceptional assemblages of the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; of the French Impressionists (the Museum owns thirty-seven Monets and twenty-one oil paintings by Cézanne); and of Vermeer, whose five canvases at the Metropolitan surpass the number at any other museum in the world.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

Among its many masterpieces are exceptional assemblages of the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; of the French Impressionists (the Museum owns thirty-seven Monets and twenty-one oil paintings by Cézanne); and of Vermeer, whose five canvases at the Metropolitan surpass the number at any other museum in the world.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010