Saturday, October 11, 2008

Tiepolo









Frescoes by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804), Venetian son of a more famous Venetian painter-father named Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770). To me the son's work is more interesting than the father's. Less successful in a worldly way, the son could indulge a more playful imagination (and more radical compositions).