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Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe'The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo as the last artist of the ancien régime and...

The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, covering vast ceilings like those at the Wurzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. And he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: endowed with fluid, seemingly effortless style, he was the last incarnation of that pec...

Calasso studies 18th-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo's 33 bizarre and haunting etchings, interpreting them as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo's art.