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They also populate a related show at the Pierpont Morgan Library, "Tiepolo and His Circle: Drawings in American Collections," which showcases some of Domenico's great studies of animals (Punchinello with an elephant, Punchinello riding a donkey).
"Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696-1770" (Metropolitan Museum of Art).
(The conventional wisdom on the 18 th -century painter: He was said to be "a decadent ally of aristocratic taste"--Solomon; "an advocate of pomposity, cynicism, and costume drama"--Francis Haskell, New York Review of Books .) Hughes sees new levels of wit in Tiepolo's paintings: "[T]he distanced, self-aware theatrics of his style--his parade of visual language as a source of delight--make him look modern."
Fortunately, such was the zeal of American collectors that many of Tiepolo's finest works are in American museums, including a magnificent horde at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
"These shows make it clear that the once accepted view of Tiepolo was wrong," says Time critic Robert Hughes.