by Adelheid M. Gealt, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, George Knox
by Adelheid M. Gealt, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, George Knox
""With its scholarly apparatus, the book will be an essential reference tool. It should also serve to introduce a wider audience to the pleasures, and to the insights into 18th-century culture, that this still too little appreciated master draftsman has to offer."" -- Choice
""Few visual artists have made such an extended excursion into so weird and wonderful a realm of their own invention."" -- International Herald Tribune
""This is an amazing catalog, one that shows how inventive the artist was..."" -- Umbrella
This richly illustrated, thoroughly researched catalog accompanies the first major exhibition devoted to a comprehensive examination of drawings by Domenico Tiepolo (1727--1804). Chief draftsman in the studio of his famous father, Giambattista Tiepolo, Domenico achieved personal distinction as a brilliant and original artist with a fascination for storytelling in his drawings.