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Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Symposium: Tiepolo Drawings: Reconsiderations and Discoveries

Thursday, January 25, 2024 1:00–5:00 PM
Tickets
$10; $5 for Morgan Members; free for students with a valid ID (Tickets include museum admission)

 

The Morgan Drawing Institute is pleased to announce a symposium devoted to the drawings of the Tiepolo family, presented in conjunction with the exhibition Spirit and Invention: Drawings by Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo on view at the Morgan through January 28, 2024.

Becoming Tiepolo: Explorations in Drawing in his Early Career
Catherine Whistler, Research Keeper, Ashmolean Museum of Art and Archeology

VIVAT BACCHUS! A Few Questions regarding Tiepolo's God of Wine, plus Two Cautionary Tales
William Barcham, Professor Emeritus of the History of Art, Fashion Institute of Technology

Giambattista Tiepolo’s “Scalzi Style” Reconsidered: Newly Proposed Connections for the Würzburg Residenz and the Church of the Pietà
Ian Hicks, former Moore Curatorial Fellow, Morgan Library & Museum

Pathos and Reality: Chalk Drawings of Heads by Giambattista, Domenico, and Lorenzo Tiepolo
Denis Ton, Curator at Castello del Buonconsiglio, Trent

Observations on Materials and Making: The Morgan’s Tiepolo Drawings
Reba F. Snyder, Walter and Constance Burke Paper Conservator, Morgan Library & Museum

Giambattista and Domenico Tiepolo: Father and Son, Master and Pupil, Artists in Dialogue
John Marciari, Curatorial Chair, Morgan Library & Museum

A Roundtable Discussion will Follow

Image: Giambattista Tiepolo, Two Figures Seated in Clouds, ca. 1737–1740. Pen and brown ink and wash over black chalk. Purchased by Pierpont Morgan (1837–1913) in 1909, IV, 98h.