Roberto Calasso
Videos
Roberto Calasso was an Italian writer and publisher. Apart from his mother tongue, Calasso was fluent in French, English, Spanish, German, Latin and ancient Greek. He also studied Sanskrit. He has bee
Calasso in 1991
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Videos
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the
Roberto Calasso
…trend continues with Il rosa Tiepolo (Tiepolo Pink), inspired by an adjective used by Marcel Proust to describe a shade of pink used by Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo in his paintings. With La folie Baudelaire, Calasso once more broadens his scope from fresco to a whole civilisation, that of Paris in the latter half…
Self-portrait (1750–1753), from the ceiling fresco in the Würzburg Residence
The Glory of St. Dominic, 1723
Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva shows Massiva, the nephew of a prince of Numidia, being released after capture by Scipio Africanus. Walters Art Museum.
The Banquet of Cleopatra, 1743–44, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne