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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice older book in good condition. Very slight tan to page edges due to age. Pages in good condition. Images are beautiful bright and vivid. No notes or highlighting. See images. Fantastic book.

About the book >.>.> On 12 December 1750 the Venetian painter Giambat- tista Tiepolo arrived in W?rzburg capital of the small German principality of Franconia. Its ruler Prince- Bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenclau had commis- sioned him to decorate the Kaisersaal one of the state rooms in his palace the Residenz. Later extended to include the decoration of the Residenz’s staircase the commission resulted in a series of frescos that are num- bered among the greatest glories of Baroque painting. Created by the last major representative of the Venetian traditon in painting the frescos in the W?rz- burg Residenz are a truly epochal work of art. They form the culmination of a venerable tradition of fresco decoration initiated by Giotto over four hundred years earlier and in their marriage of mythological and historical subject-matter constitute a monument to the dying age of absolutism. In his highly readable text Peter O. Kr?ckmann tells the story of how Tiepolo came to receive the commission explores in detail the thematic and artistic intricacies of the frescos and documents their genesis as a continuous process from the preliminary sketches to the finished works. In examining the relationship between the painted dec- oration and the architecture of the Residenz he sheds new light on the place of the frescos in the complex ceremonial rituals of a provincial court. (MP)