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Tiepolo in Milan: the lost frescoes of Palazzo Archinto

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    Lost frescoes of Palazzo Archinto


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Abstract

"The exhibition reunites surviving preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photos, for an extraordinary lost fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770). The frescos were painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan and destroyed in a bombing of the city during World War II."

Contents

Director's foreword -- Acknowledgments -- The lost frescoes of Palazzo Archinto / by Xavier F. Salomon -- Palazzo Archinto: the history, renovations, and organization of an eighteenth-century Palazzo / by Alessandra Kluzer -- Giambattista Tiepolo, fresco painter / by Andrea Tomezzoli -- Tiepolo in Milan: culture, publishing, and art in the Archinto circle / by Denis Ton -- Catalogue entries -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index -- Photography credits.

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    New York: The Frick Collection, in association with Paul Holberton Publishing, 2019

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    • 9780912114767
    • 0912114762
    • 1911300520
    • 9781911300526

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    This catalogue is published on the occasion of "Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto", an exhibition on view at The Frick Collection, New York, April 16-July 14, 2019.


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