Sujet
Scherzi di Fantasia: Magician Pointing Out a Burning Head to Two Youths, 1750s. Creator: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696-1770).
Légende
Scherzi di Fantasia: Magician Pointing Out a Burning Head to Two Youths, 1750s. A scherzo is a musical composition made up of little phrases, with implications of playfulness. Tiepolo's Scherzi are improvised scenes of magicians, philosophers, soldiers, old men in turbans, and shepherds who consult horoscopes, skulls, skeletons, and snakes among altars, ruins, and ancient bas-reliefs. The transitory nature of life, the vanity of human pursuits, and direct confrontation with death, are the recurring themes. The eerie mood of the prints reflect the preoccupation of 18th-century Venice with magic, superstition, and witchcraft. Light was Tiepolo's essential means of expression and the basic element of his style. The sensation of sunlight bathing each scene is an illusion created by the contrast of the nervous, broken lines against white paper. Shade is obliterated; even the darkest areas are transparent as they, too, are created out of light.
Crédit
Photo12/Heritage Images/Heritage Art
Notre référence
HRM19G03_260
Model release
NA
Property release
NA
Licence
Droits gérés
Format disponible
63,1Mo (5,3Mo) / 33,3cm x 47,5cm / 3938 x 5605 (300dpi)