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Figures in a landscape with ruins
Maker
1696-1770
(etcher)
1696-1770
(publisher)
1680-1767
(publisher)
1680-1767
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Width: 18.5 cm
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Vari Capricci has no straightforward or overt meaning. The series comprises imaginary scenes and combines realistic figures with fantastical ones such as talking skeletons or river gods. Several prints evoke the ancient or Arcadian world, with figures set alongside tombstones, classical urns and fragments of obelisks. Although often described as 'philosophers', the aged men, often bearded and carrying a staff or a large book, who appear in this set of Tiepolo's etchings and in his other, probably later series Scherzi, might more accurately be described as soothsayers or magi; certainly the burning pyres, the skulls and snake-twisted staffs which appear in both series suggest the search for hidden signs or meanings.
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Collection, London & England, 11/02/1999-03/05/1999
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