Flying Angels and Putti

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo1785/1795

Details

Title: Flying Angels and Putti
Creator: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Creator Lifespan: 1727/1804
Creator Nationality: Italian
Creator Gender: Male
Creator Death Place: Venice, Italy
Creator Birth Place: Venice, Italy
Date Created: 1785/1795
Location: Europe
Physical Dimensions: w28.89 x h20.32 (sheet)
Label Copy: The son of the famous Venetian painter, G-B Tiepolo, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was an accomplished painter and engraver in his own right. Although he and his brother Lorenzo worked with their father on large commissions of both religious and mythological subjects until the elder Tiepolo’s death in 1770, Giovanni Dominico had become an established artist by the age of twenty. Together father and son had worked on numerous projects decorating interiors both in Italy, Spain, and Germany. This study of flying angels and putti demonstrates the bravura and theatricality of the Tiepolos’ style, derived from Rococo painting in Venice. The fluid use of wash to both indicate shadow and define mass is characteristic of Tiepolo’s tremendous draftsmanship.
Type: Drawing
External Link: http://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2008-sl-1.163/GO2008_6.JPG?lasttype=boolean;lastview=thumbnail;resnum=1;sel9=ic_exact;size=20;sort=relevance;start=1;subview=detail;view=entry;rgn1=musart_an;select1=ic_exact;q1=2008%2F1.163
Medium: pen and ink, brown wash on paper

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