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The eighteenthcentury Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his lifeexecuting commissions in churches palaces and villas often covering vastceilings like those at the Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace inMadrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of anepoch swirled around himbut though his contemporaries appreciated and admiredhim they failed to understand him. Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolosseries of thirtythree bizarre and haunting etchings the Capricci and theScherzi but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge interpreting them aschapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolos art.Blooming ephebes female Satyrs Oriental sages owls snakes we will findthem all as well as Punchinello and Death within the pages of this bookalong with Venus Time Moses numerous angels Cleopatra and Beatrice ofBurgundya motley company always on the go. Calasso makes clear that Tiepolowas more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of painting. Rather herepresented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form endowed with afluid seemingly effortless style Tiepolo was the last incarnation of thatpeculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura the art of not seeming artful. «
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