Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727 – March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter andprintmaker inetching. He was the son of artistGiovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother ofLorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.
Domenico was born inVenice, studied under his father, and by the age of 13 was the elder Tiepolo's chief assistant. He was one of the many assistants, including his brother Lorenzo, who transferred the designs of his father (often executed in 'oil sketches). By the age of 20, he was producing his own work for commissioners.
He assisted his father inWürzburg 1751–3, decorating the famousstairwell fresco, inVicenza at theVilla Valmarana ai Nani in 1757, and at theRoyal Palace of Madrid forCharles III of Spain from 1762 to 1770.
His painting style developed after the death of his father in 1770, at which time he returned to Venice, and worked there as well as inGenoa andPadua. His painting, though keeping the decorative influence of his father, moved from its spatial fancy and began to take a more realistic direction. His portraits and scenes of life in Venice are characterised by movement, colour, and deliberate composition.
After a lapse of 15 years, his work developed from thereligious andmythological subjects of his father to a more secular style. He produced 104 sketches ofPunchinello, the standard character of thecommedia dell'arte (which would later become Punch inPunch and Judy), a physically deformed clown. These were created as 'Entertainments for the Children', and attempted to poke fun at the pretensions and behaviour of the viewer.
The same protagonist featured in frescos (1759-1797) in his villa di Zianigo nearMirano. These frescoes were detached and nearly sold to be dealt once again in France, but the then Minister of Public Education, blocked the export and acquired them for the city of Venice. Since 1936, they have been on display, in a near replica of the original arrangement, in theCa Rezzonico Museum on theGrand Canal. The frescoes have undergone recent restoration.[1] The scenes depict often cryptic events, part genre and part epic-farce, of crowds of Pulcinellos at play and work, as well as acarnival scene. The genre thematic and humor are strikingly different from the grand epic apotheoses painted his father.
Many of Domenico's works are drawings with ink wash, and he was a fine draftsman, although weaker than his father. HisSt. Ambrose Addressing the Young St. Augustine sketch is typical of the commissions he would receive.St. Ambrose, with thecrozier andmitre, addresses and gives religious instruction to the beardlessSaint Augustine. The composition has the pomp and grandiosity of his father's work, set out as if part of a theatrical display. He, however, took 18th-century Venice as the setting for this 4th-century act, drawing on his experience of the city and his many works depicting life in it.
Domenico was also a significant printmaker inetching, often reproducing his own or his father's paintings. But his original compositions include a series of twenty-four illustrations of theIdee Pittoresche sulla Fuga in Egitto ("Picturesque Scenes from theFlight into Egypt"), and one of the fourteenStations of the Cross.
ThePrado Museum, TheArt Gallery of New South Wales (Sydney, Australia), theBlanton Museum of Art (University of Texas, Austin), theCleveland Museum of Art, theFinnish National Gallery, theHonolulu Museum of Art, theIndiana University Art Museum, Kunst Indeks Danmark, theMinneapolis Institute of Arts, theMusée des Beaux-Arts de Caen, theMusée des Beaux-Arts de Strasbourg, the Musée duLouvre (Paris),Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid),Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya (Barcelona), theNational Gallery (London), theNational Museums and Galleries of Wales, thePhiladelphia Museum of Art,Pinacoteca Ambrosiana (Milan),Pinacoteca di Brera (Milan), thePortland Art Museum, theLázaro Galdiano Museum (Madrid), theRoyal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, theSeattle Art Museum, theLos Angeles County Museum of Art, theVictoria and Albert Museum, theReal Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando (Madrid), theWadsworth Atheneum, and the Rosen House at Caramooor Center for Music & the Arts, are among the public collections holding paintings by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo.
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