Name: Death Holds an Audience - Etching by G.B. Tiepolo - 1785
Brand: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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Death Holds an Audience - Etching by G.B. Tiepolo - 1785

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Death holds an audience is an etching realized by Giambattista Tiepolo in 1785. Death, an old nun with a veiled head leafs through a large book and holds an audience. In front of her are many characters: a philosopher, a magician, a woman, a soldier, a dog. This engraving is considered the most famous of the series "Varii Capriccj".. Sheet 23 x 30 cm. Good impressions on paper, with wide margins. Reference: De Vesme, 3/10; Rizzi 29/38. Succi 41/50. It belongs to the edition pf "Capriccj" dedicated to Girolamo Manfrin. This is the only edition which was issued as a stand-alone publication. Following Rutgers, the realization of the series was realized between 1733 and 1735. One of the most celebrated painters of eighteenth-century in Italy, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) began making prints with his first collection of ten etchings, known as the Varj Capriccj: a very personal response to the production by Salvator Rosa and Giovanni Benedetto Castiglione . The prints don't have any straightforward or overt meanings, surely several prints evoke the ancient or Arcadian world, with classical urns, figures alongside tombstones, and fragments of obelisks; in one plate, the figure of Death was reading a book, faced by a group of the living. Tiepolo’s Vari Capricci received with great acclaim among collectors and connoisseurs, thanks to their technical virtuosity and to their enigmatic meanings, a mark of his brilliance and a successful and personal declension of the “capriccio”. In 1774 Pierre-Jean Mariette wrote about Tiepolo: “ Rich and fertile genius … it shines above all in his prints ’'.

Creator:
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770, Italian)
Creation Year:
1785
Dimensions:
Height: 9.06 in (23 cm)Width: 12.6 in (32 cm)Depth: 0.04 in (1 mm)
Medium:
Etching
Movement & Style:
Old Masters
Period:
1780-1789
Condition:
Insurance may be requested by customers as additional service, contact us for more information.
Gallery Location:
Roma, IT
Reference Number:
Seller: T-1427441stDibs: LU650313198872

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