Image

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Study after Alessandro Vittoria's Bust of Giulio Contarini, ca. 1743

Description

Maker

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696-1770, Italian

Title

Study after Alessandro Vittoria's Bust of Giulio Contarini

Year

ca. 1743

Medium

Red and white chalk on blue laid paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

paper

Dimensions

Sheet: 23.3 x 16.8 cm (9 3/16 x 6 5/8 inches)

Type

Credit

Museum Works of Art Fund

Object Number

48.427

Projects & Publications

Publications

Old Master Drawings from the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design

Exhibition History

Drawing Closer

March 12 - September 4, 2022

This close-up study of an older man gazing intently to the left was not based on a live model, but on a terra-cotta sculpture. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo kept the bust in his studio and made a number of drawings after it, studying the features from different angles and distances. These drawn exercises reveal that Tiepolo used the three-dimensional sculpture as a convenient means of sharpening his ability to observe and increasing his familiarity with the anatomy of the human head from various perspectives.

Old Master Drawings

September 2 - October 16, 1983

Venetian Drawings and Prints of the 18th Century

January 12 - February 5, 1967

Italian Drawings from the Museum's Collection

March 17 - April 16, 1961

Use

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