<![CDATA[Blanton Museum of Art Collections]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/browse?tags=554.1999&sort_field=added&sort_dir=a&output=rss2 Thu, 28 Mar 2024 07:39:00 -0500 koven.smith@blantonmuseum.org (Blanton Museum of Art Collections) Zend_Feed http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss <![CDATA[The Storyteller]]> http://utw10658.utweb.utexas.edu/items/show/2814

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Creator

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Title

The Storyteller

Date Created

mid 1770s

Spatial Coverage

33.8 cm x 57.1 cm (13 5/16 in. x 22 1/2 in.)

Identifier

554.1999

Medium

Oil on canvas

Description

Standing on a chair before a crowd in a piazza, a storyteller points to a portable image that helps illustrate his story. The baroque guitar on his back and the triangle in his female assistant's hand suggest that their performance also involved music. Not everyone is absorbed in his story, however. The young lady in a bright orange dress turns her head to respond to the man in a mask, whose suspicious intentions seem to have been noticed by the wary dog in the foreground. The diverse gestures, facial expressions, and colorful attire of the audience offer a glimpse of a popular carnival activity in eighteenth-century Venice. The low viewpoint and the long horizontal format help the viewer to witness the event at the eye level of the depicted figures, which adds to the sense of reality of the painted scene.

Rights Holder

The Suida-Manning Collection

Date

Venice, Italy, 1727 - 1804, Venice, Italy

Type

painting

Has Version

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Requires

16205
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