Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770 / edited by Keith Christiansen

New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; xv, 398 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 32 cm. Notes; Catalog of an exhibition held at the Museo del Settecento veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice, from September 5-December 9, 1996, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from January 22-April 27, 1997. Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-386) and indexes. Contents; Foreword / Philippe de Montebello, Giovanna Nepi Scire and Giandomenico Romanelli -- Preface and Acknowledgments / Keith Christiansen -- Giambattista Tiepolo : ""Painting's True Magician"" / Adriano Mariuz -- Giambattista Tiepolo : A Meditation on History, Time, and Death / Giandomenico Romanelli -- Tiepolo and the Artistic Culture of Eighteenth-Century Europe / Donald Posner -- A Documented Chronology of Tiepolo's Life and Work / Andrea Bayer -- The Early Years: 1716-1730 : Becoming Tiepolo / Filippo Pedrocco -- Secular Commissions : Tiepolo as a Painter of History and Mythology and as a Decorator / William L. Barcham -- Religious Commissions : Tiepolo as a Religious Artist / Catherine Whistler -- Portraits and Fantasy Heads : Tiepolo and the ""Art"" of Portraiture / Diane De Grazia -- Modelli, Capricci, and Prints : The Fiery Poetic Fantasy of Giambattista Tiepolo / Keith Christiansen. Subjects; Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 1696-1770 ; Exhibitions. Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista 1696-1770. 1700-1799. Painting, Italian 18th century ; Exhibitions. Art, Italian 18th century ; Exhibitions.