Tiepolo Pink
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- Paperback
304 pages
- Release Date
18 August 2020
Summary
New to Penguin Modern Classics - a captivating exploration of the work of one of Italy’s most influential - and least understood - painters.
Throughout his masterpiece, In Search of Lost Time, Proust repeatedly refers to colours as “Tiepolo Pink” or “Tiepolo Red”. Who exactly was the artist that he so memorably transformed into colour?
The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces and villas, cre…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780241399422 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0241399424 |
| Author: | Roberto Calasso, Alastair McEwen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 304 |
| Release Date: | 18 August 2020 |
| Weight: | 481g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 23mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Calasso has written a brilliant, eccentric, provocative, annoying, and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter.
Calasso has written a brilliant, eccentric, provocative, annoying, and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter. * The New Republic *
As one has come to expect of this polyglot and polymathic author, the range of references that inform his viewings is broad, deep and effortless * The Art Newspaper *
The next best thing to visiting Europe and seeing the painter’s work … Calasso is one of the most demanding and intoxicating critics writing today. * Los Angeles Times *
About The Author
Roberto Calasso
Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in 1941. An author and publisher, he began working at Adelphi Edizioni from its founding in 1962 and continued as director for fifty years. The Book of All Books is the tenth part of a series that began with The Ruin of Kasch and includes the international bestseller The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony as well as Ka, K., Tiepolo Pink, La Folie Baudelaire, Ardor, The Celestial Hunter and The Unnamable Present. He died in Milan in 2021.
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