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Tiepolo

noun
1.
Italian painter (1696-1770).  Synonym: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.






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"Tiepolo" Quotes from Famous Books



... failed to do so. Then drew a little and loafed a good deal on the Bundar watching the lateen-rigged boats. These boats take passengers to Elephanta or go off to the ships in the Bay with cargoes of brightly coloured fruits. The scene always reminds me of that beautiful painting by Tiepolo of the landing of Queen Elizabeth in our National Gallery—I daresay one or two Edinburgh people may know it. The boats are about twenty feet long with narrow beam. Figures in rich colours sit under the little awnings spread over the stern; the sailors ...
— From Edinburgh to India & Burmah • William G. Burn Murdoch

... bared to the elbow, lay stretched carelessly on the fine cut-velvet which covered the gilt sofa—part of a suite of Venetian Louis Quinze, clumsily gorgeous—on which she sat; the other hand pulled the ears of a toy spaniel. On the ceiling above her, Tiepolo had painted a headlong group of sensuous forms, alive with vulgar movement and passion; the putti and the goddesses, peering through aerial balustrades, looked down ...
— The Marriage of William Ashe • Mrs. Humphry Ward



Words linked to "Tiepolo" :   Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, painter



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