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Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo

Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo

Boorsch, Suzanne
1997
48 pages
26 illustrations
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Suzanne Boorsch

Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1766
Multiple artists/makers
1762
1723–30
Le Fabriche, e vedute di Venetia, Luca Carlevaris  Italian, plates: etching
1703
Illustration for a Book:  Surrender of the Keys of a City to an Emperor, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo  Italian, Black chalk.   Horizontal and vertical centering lines ruled in faint black chalk
1696–1770
1721
Portrait of Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder, Giovanni Antonio Faldoni  Italian, Etching and engraving
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1725
The Virgin and Child with Saint John the Baptist, Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder  Italian, Chiaroscuro woodcut, with dark brown line block and medium brown and mustard yellow tone blocks
1722
Multiple artists/makers
1735 (?)
1743
Studies of Heads, Francesco Algarotti  Italian, Etching
ca. 1744
Diversarum Iconum...Series Secunda, Anton Maria Zanetti the Elder  Italian, Chiaroscuro woodcuts, etchings, and engravings
1749
Multiple artists/makers
ca. 1766
1739
The Locks at Dolo, an oval-shaped basin with boats at center, buildings on either side, a fruit vendor and groups of figures in the foreground, from 'Views' (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal), Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)  Italian, Etching; second state of three
1735–46
Imaginary View of Venice, houses at left with figures on terraces, a domed church at center in the background, boats and boat-sheds below, and a seated man observing from a wall at right in the foreground, from 'Views' (Vedute altre prese da i luoghi altre ideate da Antonio Canal), Canaletto (Giovanni Antonio Canal)  Italian, Etching; undivided plate, only state
1741
Multiple artists/makers
1745
Multiple artists/makers
1760
1741
The Sacrifice of Polyxena, from "Bacchanals and Histories", Francesco Fontebasso  Italian, Etching
1744
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Boorsch, Suzanne. 1997. Venetian Prints and Books in the Age of Tiepolo: Exhibition Held at] the Metropolitan Museum of Art, [New York, January 23-April 27, 1997. New York: Metropolitan museum of art.