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Cargando... El rosa Tiepolo (2006)por Roberto Calasso
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. This was one of those books that had deserts and desserts; both were pretty, some were long. Though I often found myself confused and impatient while reading this, the first sentence was very rewarding. "What happened with Tiepolo was the same thing that was to happen with certain imposing and mysterious ancient objects like the Shang bronzes: those aspects that resisted interpretation were considered decorative, while those too charged with meaning were labeled ornamental." I can take that to the museum with me. sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
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"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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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3.5 stars with an asterisk: political reality has never been this depressing. Calasso points to the sublime, the inherent mystery within. The task at hand is the Scherzi and the Capricci a pair of collections of etchings from the 18C painter Giambattista Tiepolo, an inscrutable iconography. Along the way of this largely orthodox art criticism we do encounter the Chaldean who sat with Plato during the philosopher's last days and the bronze serpent of the prophet Moses. Casting silent judgement over this constitutional is the ubiquitous Baudelaire.
This work deserved a better reading but I can't help but be poleaxed by each day's WH delirium. I almost hold my breath each morning before logging on to The Guardian.
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