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Monday, September 22, 2014

Peachy at The Met: TIEPOLO CARICATURES FROM THE ROBERT LEHMAN COLLECTION Our Coverage Sponsored by Hallak Cleaners the Couture Cleaner

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We just love The Met, and we also love talent from Italy. Until September 28th, 2014-so make this a priority-The Met is showing Tiepolo Caricatures located in one room on the first floor towards the back in the Lehman collection. Called the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. 
He was a gifted storyteller, channeling Venetian grandeur, rhetorical standards, and theatrical conventions into sacred and secular scenes. 

Giambattista’s son Giovanni Domenico (1727–1804), spent much of his early life producing fresco cycles and ambitious canvases alongside his father as a workshop assistant. Following Giambattista’s death in Spain in 1770, Domenico returned to Venice to inherit his father’s mantle and build his own artistic practice. While the Tiepolos’ achievements as fresco painters,
draftsmen, and printmakers in Italy, Germany, and Spain have been celebrated extensively, their caricatures have escaped equal attention, and we found them incredibly entertaining.  We were delighted to meet "Punchinello"!  You'll be introduced to Venetian pop culture of the time and see some amusing scenes.

Venice has maintained a substantial market in finished drawings since the mid-eighteenth century, when the medium was increasingly valued as a more direct and expressive means of conveying artistic sensibility. This selection of drawings from the Robert Lehman Collection presents a cast of characters shared by father and son. Giambattista’s caricature studies, produced in great quantity and pasted into albums, catalogue variations of pose and dress derived from contemporary Venetian life. After his father’s death, Domenico looked to Giambattista’s readily convenient repertoire of caricatures for inspiration as he turned to drawing in his later years.


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