Anyone who feels uncomfortable with the sheer artificiality of art is likely to have difficulties with Giambattista Tiepolo, the greatest Italian painter--and one of the three or four chief European ones--of the 18th century. Though based on intensive study of the human body, his work is about as realistic as grand opera. Enter it, and you're inducted into a majestic yet unpredictable fantasy land. It is full of soaring and twisting space, transparency and delicious shot-silk color--a place dedicated to the imagination and filled with idealized personages from history, myth and fable. It is by turns sublime, witty and slightly preposterous...
ART: VENETIAN VIRTUOSO: GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO
TWO SHOWS CELEBRATE THE BRIO, WIT AND POWER OF THE 18TH CENTURY MASTER GIAMBATTISTA TIEPOLO
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