The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to announce a symposium devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo on view at the Morgan through January 28, 2024.
Becoming Tiepolo: Explorations in Drawing in his Early Career
Catherine Whistler, Research Keeper, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology
VIVAT BACCHUS! A Few Questions regarding Tiepolo's God of Wine, plus Two Cautionary Tales
William Barcham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology
Giambattista Tiepolo’s “Scalzi Style” Reconsidered: Newly Proposed Connections for the Würzburg Residenz and the Church of the Pietà
Ian Hicks, former Moore Curatorial Fellow, Morgan Library & Museum
Pathos and Reality: Chalk Drawings of Heads by Giambattista, Domenico, and Lorenzo Tiepolo
Denis Ton, Curator at Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent
Observations on Materials and Making: The Morgan’s Tiepolo Drawings
Reba F. Snyder, Walter and Constance Burke Paper Conservator, Morgan Library & Museum
Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: Father and Son, Master and Pupil, Artists in Dialogue
John Marciari, Curatorial Chair, Morgan Library & Museum
A Roundtable Discussion will Follow
Image: Giambattista Tiepolo, Two Figures Seated in Clouds, ca. 1737–1740. Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1909, IV, 98h.