TIEPOLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1692-1769)

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TIEPOLO, GIOVANNI BATTISTA (1692-1769) , Italian painter; was born at Venice, and acquired the rudiments of his art from Gregorio Lazzarini, and probably from Piazzetta, though` the decisive influence on the formation of his style was the study of Paolo Veronese's sumptuous paintings. When hardly dut of his teens he developed an extraordinary facility of brushwork, and proved himself, as a fresco-painter, a colourist of the first
order, though this early mastery of technique made him fee- I quently neglect. form and composition. The more solid qualities of Paolo Veronesedepth of thought and balance of design are frequently wanting in his

work

WORK

, but he approaches the earlier master in richness of colour and in the management of difficult effects of lighting. He decorated many Venetian churches and palaces with ceilings and frescoes full of turbulent

movement

MOVEMENT

and rich colour, extending his operations to the near cities of the mainland and to Bergamo (Colleoni Chapel) and

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

(ceiling at Palazzo Chierici). In 1750 he proceeded to Wurzburg to paint the magnificent ceilings and frescoes at the archbishop's palace. From 1753 to about 1763 he worked again at Venice and in the cities of north-

east

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

Italy, until he was summoned to Madrid by Charles III. to paint some frescoes for the royal palace. He died at Madrid in 1769. He was the last important figure in Venetian art, and at the same time the initiator of the

baroque

BAROQUE

period.
Tiepolo's altarpieces and easel pictures show more clearly even than his frescoes how deeply he was imbued with the spirit of Paolo Veronese, for in these smaller works he paid more attention to the balance of composition, whilst retaining the luminosity of his colour harmonies. The majority of his works, both in fresco and in oils, are to be found in Venice in the churches of S. Aloise, SS. Apostoli, Gesuati, SS. Giovanni e Paolo, in the Scalzi, and the Scuola del

Carmine

CARMINE

, the Academy, and the Palazzi Labia, Rezzonico, and Quirini-Stampalia, and the Doge's Palace. Besides the cities already mentioned, Padua, Udine, Parma and Vicenza boast of fine examples of his

work

WORK

. At the National Gallery are two designs for altarpieces, a " De-position from the Cross," " Esther at the Throne of Ahasuerus," and " The

Marriage

MARRIAGE

of Marie de Medicis." Two versions of " Christ and the Adulteress " are in the collection of Dr L. Richter. Other easel pictures by Tiepolo are at the Louvre, and at the Berlin and Munich galleries. His paintings in Madrid belong to the closing years of his life and show signs of waning power. Tiepolo also executed some notable work with the etching-needle, the

list

LIST (O.E.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
, a Teutonic word, cf. Dut. lust, Ger. Leiste, adapted in Ital. lista and Fr.
lisle
- LISLE, ALICE (c. 1614-1685)
)
LIST, FRIEDRICH (1789-1846)

comprising some fifty plates. His two sons, Giovanni Domenico (about 17261804) and Lorenzo, did not attain to his excellence.
See Les Tiepolo, by

Henry

de Chennevieres (Paris, 1898); and Pompeo Molmenti, G. B. Tiepolo (

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

, 1910).

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