Graphic work and engraved plates

After visiting the m.a.x. museum in Chiasso and the National Graphic Institute in Rome, Tiepolo Nero has finally arrived in Venice.

An opportunity to admire all the graphic works by Giambattista Tiepolo and to explore some artistic materials that are surprisingly little-known, but of great significance for the study of the history of art.
Copper plates and prints – the first of which all in the possession of the Fondazione Civici Musei di Venezia and now carefully restored by the Istituto Nazionale per la Grafica – will be placed alongside each other so as to evaluate the unparalleled quality achieved by this extraordinary and refined artist, an innovator in this medium as in others, thanks to his enthusiastic attempt for the finest technical results and to his rare ability.
And it is with the exceptional nature of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s copper plates that the exhibition reveals the originality of its scientific intentions, documenting the Venetian painter’s great imagination: a genuine surprise, whose artistic and scientific value has attracted the attention of scholars and the curiosity of the general public only in recent years.

Ca’ Rezzonico Museum of the 18th Century Venice
From July 22 to October 14th 2012