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020    9780307267665 
020    0307267660 
035    (OCoLC)316029785 
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049    MCPL 
050 00 ND623.T5|bC3513 2009 
082 00 769.92|222 
100 1  Calasso, Roberto. 
240 10 Rosa Tiepolo.|lEnglish 
245 10 Tiepolo pink /|cRoberto Calasso ; translated from the 
       Italian by Alastair McEwen. 
250    First American edition. 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c[2009] 
264  4 |c©2009 
300    288 pages :|billustrations (chiefly color) ;|c22 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
500    "Originally published in Italy as Il rosa Tiepolo by 
       Adelphi Edizioni, Milan, in 2006"--T.p. verso. 
504    Includes bibliographical references and index. 
505 0  "A pleasure accompanied by light" -- Meridian theurgy -- 
       Glory and solitude. 
520    "The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista 
       Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, 
       palaces, and villas, often covering vast ceilings like 
       those at the Würzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal 
       Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories 
       of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him--
       but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him,
       they failed to understand him. Few have even attempted to 
       tackle Tiepolo's series of thirty-three bizarre and 
       haunting etchings, the Capricci and the Scherzi, but 
       Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge, interpreting them 
       as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret 
       of Tiepolo's art. Blooming ephebes, female Satyrs, 
       Oriental sages, owls, snakes: we will find them all, as 
       well as Punchinello and Death, within the pages of this 
       book, along with Venus, Time, Moses, numerous angels, 
       Cleopatra, and Beatrice of Burgundy--a motley company 
       always on the go. Calasso makes clear that Tiepolo was 
       more than a dazzling intermezzo in the history of 
       painting. Rather, he represented a particular way of 
       meeting the challenge of form: endowed with a fluid, 
       seemingly effortless style, Tiepolo was the last 
       incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue sprezzatura, 
       the art of not seeming artful."--From publisher 
       description. 
600 10 Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista,|d1696-1770|xCriticism and 
       interpretation. 
600 10 Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista,|d1696-1770.|tScherzi. 
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