Tiepolo Pink
Roberto Calasso, the erudite Italian investigator of the black arts, has lightened up: he has written a celebration of the colour pink, the. The eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life executing commissions in churches, palaces, and villas, often covering vast.
Tiepolo's visual art is a sketch of a world we cannot see, an oracular glimpse of an atmosphere that teems with beings whose "spiritual power" can't be apprehended by our imperceptive eyes. It's a frustrating conclusion: Elsewhere there are riffs about the relationship between eating and looking, or the link between poison and imagery — bright ideas with no visible means of support.
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Is he a polymath or just a polyglot name-dropper? Though he praises the "ecumenical humanity" in Tiepolo's paintings, his own sympathies remain partisan, even xenophobic. Such asides point up the peculiarly national bent of Calasso's sensibility.
Tiepolo Pink could be followed by Berlusconi Bronze. Rather, he represented a particular way of meeting the challenge of form: From the Hardcover edition.
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Roberto Calasso was born in Florence in He lives in Milan, where he is publisher of Adelphi Edizioni. The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, his third book, has been translated into 12 languages. Calasso is one of the most demanding and intoxicating critics writing today. Also by Roberto Calasso. See all books by Roberto Calasso. Inspired by Your Browsing History. Cynthia Burlingham and Allegra Pesenti.
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