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Tiepolo’s Chariot of the Sun in the Palazzo Clerici, Milan: Drawings and Pictorial Invention

Nearing age 45 and the reigning genius in eighteenth-century Italy, Giambattista Tiepolo frescoed a remarkable secular ceiling in 1740 for a wealthy, recently ennobled patron in Milan, Anton Giorgio Clerici (1715–1768). Join William Barcham, Thaw Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Fashion Institute of Technology, as he explores the surviving drawings for the ceiling and what they reveal about Tiepolo’s brilliant talent and whimsical imagination in transmuting earthly reality into a fanciful but parallel social order.











When: Wed., May. 25, 2016 at 6:30 pm
Where: Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Ave.
212-685-0008
Price: Free
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Nearing age 45 and the reigning genius in eighteenth-century Italy, Giambattista Tiepolo frescoed a remarkable secular ceiling in 1740 for a wealthy, recently ennobled patron in Milan, Anton Giorgio Clerici (1715–1768). Join William Barcham, Thaw Senior Fellow and Professor Emeritus, Fashion Institute of Technology, as he explores the surviving drawings for the ceiling and what they reveal about Tiepolo’s brilliant talent and whimsical imagination in transmuting earthly reality into a fanciful but parallel social order.

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