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Friday, August 15, 2014

METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART: GALLERIA 622: GIOVANNI BATTISTA TIEPOLO: Oil sketches.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's fame and consummate skill brought him to work outside Italy, for ecclesiastic and royal patrons in Germany and Spain. On view in this gallery are dazzlingly vertiginous oil sketches for some of his most celebrated projects, including the fresco decoration of the immense ceiling of the staircase in the Residenz, Würzburg, and ceilings in the newly built Palacio Real in Madrid. His son Giovanni Domenico preferred less exalted subjects, such as the enchanting Dance in the Country of about 1755.
The Harry Payne Bingham Galleries

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