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Tiepolesque, a.|tɪˌɛpəʊˈlɛsk| [f. Tiepolo (see below) + -esque.] Characteristic of or resembling the work of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), or of his son Domenico (1727–1804), Italian painters famous esp. for (ceiling) frescos. Often used somewhat loosely.
1895G. B. Shaw Our Theatres in Nineties (1932) I. 159 Goddesses in a Tiepolesque ceiling. 1934Burlington Mag. Feb. 91/1 The purely Tiepolesque conception of the war-horse. 1958Times 17 Oct. 17/6 The dash of Murillo in ‘The Guerilla taking leave of his Confessor’, or the much less happy Tiepolesque pose of the figure straining at the wheel of the gun in ‘The Defence of Saragossa’. 1974Times Lit. Suppl. 20 Dec. 1449/5 Her inability to understand Visconti's Tiepolesque conception of Iphigénie en Tauride is significant: she wanted to look Greek, primeval and savage whereas Visconti wished upon her the bejewelled artificiality of a Venetian fresco. |