The Religious Paintings of Giambattista Tiepolo: Piety and Tradition in Eighteenth-Century Venice

by William L. Barcham

This is the first work to concentrate on the great religious paintings of Giambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770), who produced some of the most ravishing devotional images in Western Art. Scrutinizing both iconography and technique, Barcham shows that Tiepolo's religious art represented the ultimate
artistic embodiment of the Venetian Republic's sentiments in that it expressed Venetian patriotism, tradition, and national identity.

266 pages, Hardcover

First published April 26, 1990