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Nearing age 45 and the reigning genius in eighteenth-century Italy, Giambattista Tiepolo frescoed a remarkable secular ceiling in 1740 for a wealthy, recently ennobled patron in Milan, Anton Giorgio Clerici (1715–1768). Join William Barcham, Thaw Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Fashion Institute of Technology, as he explores the surviving drawings for the ceiling and what they reveal about Tiepolo’s brilliant talent and whimsical imagination in transmuting earthly reality into a fanciful but parallel social order.
Sponsored by the Morgan’s Drawing Institute, the annual Thaw Lecture aims to address critical topics in the study of drawings.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770), Apollo, with Lyre and Quiver, His Arm Upraised. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1909. IV, 112a.