{"product_id":"tiepolo-pink","title":"Tiepolo Pink","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches  palaces  and villas  often covering vast ceilings like those at the Wrzburg 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 himbut though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him  they failed to understand him.  Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolos 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 Tiepolos 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 Burgundya 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44946640666677,"sku":"ByrdShop_0307267660","price":36.45,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780307267665.jpg?v=1769958567","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/tiepolo-pink","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}