Tiepolo's Influence On The Iliad

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The Iliad is a very popular, classic epic poem written by Homer in the 8th century BC. The story, and Greek mythology in general, has had huge effects on the world, ever since it was written. The Iliad teaches life lessons and is one of the most important pieces of history ever written, overall. For instance, in the story of Iphigenia teaches its readers to know that the most evil things can be disguised to look normal. Also, it is taught that the worst things can happen to people with the purest of hearts. Iphigenia was the daughter of Clytemnestra and King Agamemnon. While her father and the rest of the Greek army was getting ready to go to war, they upset Artemis, the goddess of hunting and nature, by murdering one of her sacred deer. Artemis …show more content…

His father, who was involved in the shipping industry, died a year later. However, when he passed away, his wife and five children taken care of financially. In his early days, Tiepolo’s mother put him in the care of Gregorio Lazzarini, “a painter of decorative academic taste”, from whom tiepolo learned the basic techniques of art, or more so painting. Tiepolo’s education was very complex and varied as far as art ("Giovanni Battista Tiepolo." Britannica School). His first real masterpiece was a cycle of huge canvases painted to decorate a large reception room in Venice. (Christiansen, Keith. “Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770).” In Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History). However, Tiepolo, who was considered an unhealthy and bizzare artist, is most known for his ceiling paintings. The ceiling of the kaisersaal is the most daringly radiant work of tiepolo’s entire career. Every once in a while, Tiepolo’s sons would assist him with his ceiling work, as well. Throughout the beginning of his career, Tiepolo was more drawn to chiaroscuro, a melancholic style of art in which the artist uses a treatment of light and shade in a drawing or painting. Tiepolo did not reach “full maturity of expression” until he was about 30, but when he did, he gave up chiaroscuro and brightened up his use of colors. That is actually quite unfortunate because it was that latent melancholy of Tiepolo’s artwork that gave it a greater depth, not commonly found in other art of the time. By the 1730s, the artist began to reach fame outside of Venice, Italy, like in Milan, where he was summoned to decorate the Palazzo Archinto. Tiepolo, described as being “all spirit and fire” by a contemporary of his, mastered a wide variety of moods and such, through his art. For years after years, people of all over have tried recreating his work, which is greatly accepted by modern taste without hesitation. Tiepolo moved to Spain sometime

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