Word: tiepolo
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...survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show of the Venetian painters who made Venice's twilight tolerable...
...dogs, but no filth. Pietro Longhi charmingly showed the noble nonentities at home, drinking coffee, playing cards and Blind-Man's-Buff, attending a noblewoman who has faked a swoon. Francesco Guardi picks out with an astonishingly sparkling and impressionistic use of light the lagoons of Venice. Of Tiepolo, greatest of them all, last week's show included but two examples, the better a slick, overdramatic Crucifixion...
...from the Italian, French, English, and German schools. Among the more important works in the exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...than those which Artist Sert has painted into his compositions, there will be no hangings in the Waldorf's Sert Room. Paris critics credited the paintings with "the potency of a Michelangelo . . . daring of a Goya . . . more than one reminiscence of the great Venetian colorists like Veronese and Tiepolo...
...feel sad because the Metropolitan owns no paintings at all by Derain, Matisse, Picasso or Marie Laurencin. On the other hand, idling along its corridors, he may visit many collections greatly to his liking. There is an extensive U. S. group. The Italian collection is noteworthy, including a Tiepolo ceiling and a roomful of Primitives among which is an Aretino and a Segna di Bonaventura. There may also be seen a Fra Angelico. paintings by Carpaccio, Crivelli, Botticelli, Bellini, Tintoretto, Raphael, Paolo Veronese, Titian, Correggio, and 22 ceiling panels by Pinturicchio...