Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727 – March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and
Life history
Domenico was born in Venice, studied under his father, and by the age of 13 was the elder Tiepolo's chief assistant. He was one of the many assistants, including his brother Lorenzo, who transferred the designs of his father (often executed in 'oil sketches). By the age of 20, he was producing his own work for commissioners.
He assisted his father in Würzburg 1751–3, decorating the famous stairwell fresco, in Vicenza at the Villa Valmarana ai Nani in 1757, and at the Royal Palace of Madrid for Charles III of Spain from 1762 to 1770.
Works
His painting style developed after the death of his father in 1770, at which time he returned to Venice, and worked there as well as in Genoa and Padua. His painting, though keeping the decorative influence of his father, moved from its spatial fancy and began to take a more realistic direction. His portraits and scenes of life in Venice are characterised by movement, colour, and deliberate composition.
After a lapse of 15 years, his work developed from the
The same protagonist featured in frescos (1759-1797) in his villa di Zianigo near
Drawings and prints
Many of Domenico's works are drawings with ink wash, and he was a fine draftsman, although weaker than his father. His St. Ambrose Addressing the Young St. Augustine sketch is typical of the commissions he would receive.
Domenico was also a significant printmaker in etching, often reproducing his own or his father's paintings. But his original compositions include a series of twenty-four illustrations of the Idee Pittoresche sulla Fuga in Egitto ("Picturesque Scenes from the Flight into Egypt"), and one of the fourteen Stations of the Cross.
Collections
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Städelsches Kunstinstitut
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Chastity of Scipio, 1751,Städelsches Kunstinstitut
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Study head of an old man, 1756,Städelsches Kunstinstitut
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Altalena dei pulcinelli Ca' Rezzonnico Venice
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Sketch for St Lio in Glory, for the ceiling of the church of San Lio, Venice.
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Ceiling of the Church of San Lio, Venice.
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St Ambrose Addressing the Young St Augustine.
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Punchinello with the Ostriches.
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Detail: The quack or tooth puller,1754.
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Carnival scene: Triumph of Pulcinella
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Greyhound, painted for Villa Tiepolo, Zianigo, now at Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
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Dedication Page from "Picturesque Scenes from the Flight into Egypt
Selected works
References
- ^ Ca Rezzonico, second floor.
- ^ Adelheid M. Gealt, George Knox, Domenico Tiepolo: A New Testament Frick Collection - 2006- Page viii "This volume brings together for the first time the 313 drawings by the Venetian master Domenico Tiepolo (1727—1804) that make up the series we have entitled A New Testament. Though not recorded in his ..."
Further reading
- Peter Parshall, "Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo: The Pastiche as Capriccio," Print Quarterly, XXVIII, 2011, pp. 327–30
- Venetian prints and books in the age of Tiepolo. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. 1997.