A Magician, A Soldier, and Three Figures Watching a Burning Skull, from Scherzi
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1735–40
Medium
Etching printed in black on paper
Dimensions
Plate: 22.2 × 17.8 cm (8 3/4 × 7 1/16 in.); Sheet: 39.8 × 27.1 cm (15 11/16 × 10 11/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
23602
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) stands as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, a Venetian master whose luminous frescoes and dynamic compositions defined the Rococo era's aesthetic zenith. Born in Venice on March 5, 1696, to a modest shipping merchant family, Tiepolo's extraordinary talent transcended his humble origins to establish him as the most sought-after artis...