num_pages: 96
description: Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was the greatest Italian painter of the eighteenth century, best known for his monumental frescoes and epic altarpieces. The scale of these paintings is immense, even overpowering. Yet some of Tiepolo's finest work can be found in the small oil sketches that heoften made in preparation for these grand commissions.Published to coincide with an exhibition at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches brings together a group of the artist's oil sketches from the Courtauld Institute in London that spans his entire career and reveals the amazing confidence and fluidity with which hecreated these paintings. The unusual intimacy of these preparatory sketches-made directly on the canvas with no preliminary underdrawing-reveals a great artist's vigorous imagination at work. The exhibit will run from May 3, 2005, to September 4, 2005.An introductory essay situates these works within the context of eighteenth-century art and Tiepolo's life and career.
language: English
title: Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches
titlecomplete: Giambattista Tiepolo: Fifteen Oil Sketches
ratings_count: 2
publisher: J. Paul Getty Museum