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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo Prints
About Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, often called Giandomenico, was a Venetian painter and printmaker, born in Venice in 1727, who died there in 1804. He was the son of the painter Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, trained under him and became his assistant in the 1740s. In 1762 he went with his father to Madrid, where they worked at the Royal Palace until his father's death in 1770.
Giandomenico is known for bringing everyday life and gentle humour into his father's grand style. He painted the Stations of the Cross (1747–49) for the church of San Polo in Venice, and in 1757 he decorated the guest wing of the Villa Valmarana near Vicenza. Between 1759 and 1797 he covered the walls of his family's villa at Zianigo with scenes of carnival and of Pulcinella, the hook-nosed clown of Italian street theatre. Those frescoes were moved to the Ca' Rezzonico museum in Venice in 1936. He also made nearly 200 etchings from his own and his father's designs.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo prints: reproductions of paintings by the Venetian painter Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, made between about 1750 and 1765. The collection includes A Dance in the Country (1755), Carnival Scene (The Minuet) (1754), The Triumph of Pulcinella (1760), The Charlatan (1756) and The Departure of the Gondola (1765).
This selection concentrates on Giandomenico's scenes of Venetian public life: carnival dances, masked figures, street performers, quack doctors and the clown Pulcinella. Alongside these are a few works in a more formal manner, including the history scene The Women of Darius Invoking the Clemency of Alexander (1750), a Madonna and Child with the infant Saint John, and two single-figure portraits.
The lively carnival and country scenes suit living rooms, dining rooms and kitchens; the portraits and the Madonna fit studies, bedrooms and hallways. All prints are museum-quality reproductions, available unframed or framed with acrylic glazing, with free shipping and import duties covered.
