Example sentences for: tiepolo

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  • In churches and palaces around his native Venice, and then, as his fame spread, as far afield as Dresden and Madrid, Tiepolo was without peer in executing the tricks that make for a believable scene in the heavens: the figures foreshortened as if seen from below, the sturdy cloudbanks, the shades of pink and blue that draw the eye toward the infinite.

  • I would like to have seen a few more of Tiepolo's portraits (the greatest of which, depicting a Venetian naval hero with a mutilated hand, could not leave Venice), and not quite so many sketches for ceilings.

  • New York 's Stevens turns up the volume on the Tiepolo hype: Tiepolo "paints as a stylish swordsman might kill, with a flashing wrist; he gives us flourishes, a kind of whistling-through-the-air bravura, as if to say, 'Of course!

  • Tiepolo had a mischievous wit--to which the contributors of the lively catalog are particularly attentive--and it is given free play in his secular subjects, such as the very different joining of divine and human realms in The Rape of Europa (c.

  • But Tiepolo's vision, like Rilke contemplating autumn leaves, was of a world where everything is falling: "And yet, there is One who holds this falling with infinite softness in his hands."


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