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Tiepolo Pink

Roberto Calasso, Alastair McEwen
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      'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo as the last artist of the ancien régime and at the same time the first example of the "painter of modern life" evoked by Baudelaire. He was the incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura: the art of not seeming artful.Translated by Alastair McEwen'A brilliant, eccentric, provocative . . . and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter' John Banville, The New Republic'Calasso is a myth-maker ... a book that treats paintings as a kind of sorcery' Peter Conrad, Observer
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Roberto Calasso, Alastair McEwen EAN: 9780241399422 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 496 g HEIGHT: 128 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-05-28 CITY: GENRE: ART / History / Baroque & Rococo, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers, HISTORY / Europe / Italy WIDTH: 198 cm SPINE:

      Book Themes:

      Venice, Baroque, Rococo, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment

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      Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.
      'Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo as the last artist of the ancien régime and at the same time the first example of the "painter of modern life" evoked by Baudelaire. He was the incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura: the art of not seeming artful.Translated by Alastair McEwen'A brilliant, eccentric, provocative . . . and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter' John Banville, The New Republic'Calasso is a myth-maker ... a book that treats paintings as a kind of sorcery' Peter Conrad, Observer
      Format: CONTRIBUTORS: Roberto Calasso, Alastair McEwen EAN: 9780241399422 COUNTRY: United Kingdom PAGES: WEIGHT: 496 g HEIGHT: 128 cm
      PUBLISHED BY: Penguin Books Ltd DATE PUBLISHED: 2020-05-28 CITY: GENRE: ART / History / Baroque & Rococo, ART / Individual Artists / Monographs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Artists, Architects, Photographers, HISTORY / Europe / Italy WIDTH: 198 cm SPINE:

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      Venice, Baroque, Rococo, Individual artists, art monographs, Biography: arts and entertainment

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      Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.

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