Language:Chinese.HardCover Pub Date: 2010 Jun Pages: 304 in Publisher: Bodley Head The eighteenth-century the Venetian painter Giambattista. Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches. palaces and villas. often covering vast ceilings like those at the of Wrzburg Residenz in Germany and the Royal Palace in Madrid with frescoes that are among the glories of Western art. The life of an epoch swirled around him - but though his contemporaries appreciated and admired him. they failed to understand him. Few have even attempted to tackle Tiepolo"s series of thirty -three bizarre and haunting etchings. the Capricci and the Scherzi. but Roberto Calasso rises to the challenge. interpreting these etchings as chapters in a dark narrative that contains the secret of Tiepolo"s art. Blooming ephebes. female satyrs. Oriental sages. owls. snakes : we will find them all. includi...