Sacred eloquence: giambattista tiepolo and the rhetoric of the altarpiece
Auteur :
Fassl, Johanna
Éditeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
ISBN :
9783034300353
Date de publication :
6 oct. 2010
Dimensions :
22,0 x 15,0 cm
Poids :
780 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Suisse
Why has Tiepolo's religious art often been misunderstood? How can the abbreviation and absence of key symbols in the images be explained and why is this rhetoric of absence so utterly modern? This book deals with Tiepolo's lacunism as an eighteenth-century phenomenon anticipating modernity.