Magician and Other Figures before a Burning Altar with Skull and Bones
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · etching, reworked with pen and brown ink, and opaque white and gray wash
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About this picture
Magician and Other Figures before a Burning Altar with Skull and Bones is a public-domain drawing by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Etching, reworked with pen and brown ink, and opaque white and gray wash. The file comes from National Gallery of Art.
“Magician and Other Figures before a Burning Altar with Skull and Bones” (date not listed) has Tiepolo’s pale light and figures set high, the manner of his ceilings, even when the sheet is a drawing or an etching rather than the fresco.
About the artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was a Venetian painter of ceilings and altarpieces. The light is pale, and the figures are often seen from below. He also left a large group of etchings and drawings.
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