Word: tiepolo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hence resolved to convey his ideas in pictures. He published a volume of twelve visionary buildings that dramatized his spaces by the diagonal perspectives of stage design. But his work created no stir, and he was forced to return to Venice, where the presiding geniuses at the time were Tiepolo, Canaletto and Guardi. The influence of Tiepolo freed Piranesi's line from cramped meticulousness favored by architectural engravers of the day. The result can be clearly seen in the Morgan show, where sketches for decorative panels and figure studies echo Tiepolo's and Guardi's free draftsmanship...
...Actor Jack Nicholson put in a successful bid of $7,728 for a Tiepolo chalk sketch. French Idol Alain Delon also bid on old master drawings, but came away emptyhanded. "The prices were very high," he said. "Not too high for me, but for the pictures." When Zurich Dealer Walter Feilchenfeldt, bidding for a German museum, paid $1,177,600 for a small watercolor by Albrecht Dtirer, reporters asked if he had not gone overboard. He answered coolly: "It went more or less according to plan." Said Sherman Lee, director of the Cleveland Museum...
...this in the current novel. Urged to remember his sons when bequeathing his entire art collection to Elesina, he relents with a few to kens: "Well, suppose I leave them each a painting?...To Lionel the Holbein of Mary Tudor. To Peter the Botticelli To David the big Tiepolo...
...They read as a shimmer of color, sails in the light. Off the beach, past the rattling leaves of the sea grapes, two ambiguous planes meet: the shallow coastal water, slicked with weed, taking the light like satin; and the pale sky, colored the rinsed blue of a Tiepolo ceiling. A pelican lumbers by, just airborne, printing its ragged prehistoric silhouette on the fabric of the scene. Once again, as for the past two decades, Rauschenberg's art drains back into its source, the world...
...Here is Tiepolo's delight in wide, airy high space working as effectively in a brisk pen-and-wash sketch as on a Venetian ceiling...