Word: tiepolo
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo wanted people to look up to his art. He painted his most famous work on ceilings. Venetian by birth and rococo by temperament, the 18th century master loved to loft dangling goddesses, altitudinous angels and rafters of neck-craning cherubs. His specialty, naturally, was clouds, and his best work adorns sundry ceilings from Madrid's royal palace to Wurzburg's bishop's Residenz. Last week Tiepolo unexpectedly raised the roofs in London...
...central panel, "Time Abducting Beauty," is a paragon of Tiepolo's pagan allegories rich with Olympian overtones. Unquestionably it is the best Tiepolo in Britain, Carritt said, but despite popular demand, the public will not see it. At week's end TJ.A.R.'s President Gamal Abdel Nasser ordered his London embassy to have the Tiepolo paintings dismantled and shipped to Cairo. Nasser's reported plan: to exhibit them in the Egyptian capital, then offer them for sale to the world's museums. Said a curator of Britain's National Gallery...
...Ministry, will soon share in long-term loans of 857 first-rate paintings. While only the residue of vast hoards of some 80,000 art works repatriated after the war, the art bounty, now in gilt frames stacked like storm doors in the cellar, is resplendent with Botticelli, Cranach, Tiepolo and Titian. There are scads of Flemish masters, but not a scrap of canvas from 19th century France, whose artists Hitler scorned as the fathers of decadent modernism...
...Spanish merchant family named Labia started building a palace just off the Grand Canal. The palace's ultimate glory was a set of 18th century frescoes by Tiepolo, which depicted the story of Antony and Cleopatra with almost as much flair as the 20th Century-Fox film. With the extinction of the Labia clan, the palace turned into a squalid dump; illiterate boarders spent unknowing nights under the Tiepolos. In 1948, another Spaniard, the wealthy Don Carlos de Beistegui, now 78, rediscovered the palace, as he said, "with a violence of love and passion that no woman has inspired...
...created a magnificent clutter. Oriental porcelains and blue Sevres china, Roman drinking cups and medieval armory filled every corner. Gobelin tapestries, worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, caparisoned the walls. His personal squadron of ten gondoliers was liveried in silk and velvet costumes copied from Tiepolo and other old masters. In 1951, Don Carlos, decked out in a curly peruke and balanced atop 16-in.-platform shoes that made him 6-ft. 10-in. tall, threw a costume party for 1,500 cafe socialites flown in from Paris, New York and London. Yet, "grand passions finish," as an old lady...