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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in
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. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.


Life history

Domenico was born in
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, 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 '
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es). By the age of 20, he was producing his own work for commissioners. He assisted his father in
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1751–3, decorating the famous stairwell fresco, in
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at the Villa Valmarana Ai Nani in 1757, and in
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at the palace of
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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
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and
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. 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
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and mythological subjects of his father to a more secular style. He produced 104 sketches of Punchinello, the standard character of the commedia dell'arte (which would later become Punch in
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), a physically deformed clown. These were created as 'Entertainments for the Children', and attempted to poke fun at the pretensions and behaviour of the viewer. The same protagonist featured in frescos (1759-1797) in his villa di Zianigo near
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. These frescoes were detached and nearly sold to be dealt once again in France, but the then Minister of Public Education, blocked the export and acquired them for the city of Venice. Since 1936, they have been on display, in a near replica of the original arrangement, in the
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Museum on the Grand Canal. The frescoes have undergone recent restoration. The scenes depict often cryptic events, part genre and part epic-farce, of crowds of Pulcinellos at play and work, as well as a carnival scene. The genre thematic and humor are strikingly different from the grand epic apotheoses painted his father.


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.
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, with the crozier and
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, addresses and gives religious instruction to the beardless
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. The composition has the pomp and grandiosity of his father's work, set out as if part of a theatrical display. He, however, took 18th-century Venice as the setting for this 4th-century act, drawing on his experience of the city and his many works depicting life in it. Domenico was also a significant printmaker in
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, 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

The
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, The Art Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), the
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(University of Texas, Austin), the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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, Kunst Indeks Danmark, the
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, the
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, the
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, the
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(Paris),
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(Madrid),
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(Barcelona), the National Gallery, London, the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan),
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(Milan), the
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, the Lázaro Galdiano Museum (Madrid), the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, the
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, the
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, the
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(Madrid), and the
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are among the public collections holding paintings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. 1750 Tiepolo Die Heiligen der Familie Crotta anagoria.JPG, '' Patron Saints of the Crotta Family'', 1750, Städelsches Kunstinstitut 1751 Tiepolo Die Enthaltsamkeit Scipios anagoria.JPG, ''Chastity of Scipio'', 1751, Städelsches Kunstinstitut 1756 Tiepolo Studienkopf eines alten Mannes anagoria.JPG, ''Study head of an old man'', 1756, Städelsches Kunstinstitut Ca' Rezzonico - Altalena dei pulcinelli - Giandomenico Tiepolo.jpg , ''Altalena dei pulcinelli'' Ca' Rezzonnico Venice Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - Sketch for St. Leo in Glory, church of San Lio, Venice.jpg, Sketch for St Lio in Glory, for the ceiling of the church of San Lio, Venice. San Lio (soffitto).jpg, Ceiling of the Church of San Lio, Venice. Gian Domenico Tiepolo-La Vierge en gloire-Musée des beaux-arts de Strasbourg.jpg, ''
The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola ''The Immaculate Conception with Saint Lawrence and Saint Francis of Paola'' is an oil on canvas altarpiece by the Italian Rococo painter Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. It is on display in the Musée des Beaux-Arts of Strasbourg, France. Its invento ...
'', early 1770s (
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) Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - St. Ambrose Addressing the Young St. Augustine.jpg, St Ambrose Addressing the Young St Augustine. Giovanni Donenico Tiepolo - Punchinello with the Ostriches.jpg, Punchinello with the Ostriches. Giandomenico Tiepolo-L Arracheur de dents-vers1754.jpg, Detail: The quack or tooth puller,1754. Karnevalscene. Pulcinellas triumf.jpg, ''Carnival scene: Triumph of Pulcinella'' Ca' Rezzonico - Piccolo levriero italiano - Giandomenico Tiepolo.jpg, Greyhound, painted for Villa Tiepolo, Zianigo, now at
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, Venice
Widmungsblatt - Die Flucht nach Ägypten.jpg, Dedication Page from "Picturesque Scenes from the Flight into Egypt''


Selected works

*''The quack or tooth puller'' (1754) -
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,
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*''A New Testament'' (edition 2006)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 ..."


References


Further reading

* Peter Parshall, "Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo: The Pastiche as Capriccio," Print Quarterly, XXVIII, 2011, pp. 327–30 *


External links


Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo online, many works
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