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"tombstone": "Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children): The Game of Bowls, 1797\u20131804. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727\u20131804). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash, over traces of black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper; image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.); sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1937.571",
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"title": "The Game of Bowls",
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"measurements": "Image: 29.7 x 41.6 cm (11 11/16 x 16 3/8 in.); Sheet: 35.5 x 47.3 cm (14 x 18 5/8 in.)",
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"inscription": "signed, lower left, in brown ink: Dom\u00b0. Tiepolo f ; upper left, in brown ink: 20 ; upper left, in graphite: o ; lower right, in graphite: 20 [sideways] ; VERSO, upper right, in blue crayon: 3",
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"title": "Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings",
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"title": "Venice as City and Theater",
"description": "Venice as City and Theater. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 27-April 21, 1985).",
"opening_date": "1985-02-27T05:00:00"
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"id": 212345,
"title": "Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman",
"description": "Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Civici Musei e Gallerie di Storia ed Arte, Castello, Udine (September 14-December 31, 1996); Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington, IN (January 15-March 9, 1997).",
"opening_date": "1996-09-14T00:00:00"
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"id": 224778,
"title": "Comicity and Caricature in Tiepolo's Art",
"description": "Comicity and Caricature in Tiepolo's Art. Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (September 3-December 5, 2004).",
"opening_date": "2004-09-03T00:00:00"
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"id": 665048,
"title": "Imagination in the Age of Reason",
"description": "Imagination in the Age of Reason. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (September 28, 2024-March 2, 2025).",
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"description": "Baltimore Museum of Art, The Age of Elegance: Rococo and Its Effect (Apr. 25-June 14, 1959), no. 223.",
"opening_date": "1959-04-25T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, \"End of Continuous Exhibition of CMA Old Master Drawings in Director's Corridor in Old Bldg.\" (closed Mar. 13, 1957).",
"opening_date": "1957-03-13T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, installed, director's corridor (Oct. 19, 1954).",
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"description": "Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Five Centuries of Drawings (Oct. 15-Nov. 15, 1953), no. 67.",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (rearranged: Jan. 21, 1953).",
"opening_date": "1953-01-21T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (June 30-Dec. 8, 1950; rehung Jan. 8, 1951, \"with small changes\").",
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (May. 14, 1946- ).",
"opening_date": "1946-01-01T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, \"Drawings from the Collection\" (July 27, 1944- ).",
"opening_date": "1944-07-27T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, \"Paintings and Drawings from the Collection\" (Dec. 14, 1943-Jan. 4, 1944).",
"opening_date": "1943-12-14T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA (hung Oct. 13, 1940).",
"opening_date": "1940-10-13T00:00:00"
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"description": "San Francisco?, Golden Gate International Exposition (May 25-Sep. 29, 1940), no. 499.--NOTE: from Reg. file: \"in a separate cat., \"Master Drawings,\" this is no. 100 (illus.)--publ. Art News (20 May 1939)\"--",
"opening_date": "1940-05-25T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA (Mar. 12-Apr. 21, 1940).",
"opening_date": "1940-03-12T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, \"Life of Pulcinella\" Series (Mar. 30-Apr. 30, 1939).",
"opening_date": "1939-03-30T00:00:00"
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"description": "CMA, Drawings by Old and Modern Masters from the Collection (June 21-Sep. 30, 1938).",
"opening_date": "1938-06-21T00:00:00"
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"description": "[Sotheby's, London, 6 July 1920, lot 41]; [Colnaghi & Co.]; Richard Owen, Paris (all Udine & Bloomington, 1996, p. 216, no. 155; see departmental card for 1937.569). Italico Brass, Venice (according to departmental card)",
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"did_you_know": "This drawing is part of a larger series that depicts the life of Punchinello, a clown-like character derived from Italian popular theater.",
"description": "Here, Punchinello characters sporting their signature conical hats and hooked-nosed masks compete against a group of men in a lively game of bocce,an Italian bowling game. While their exaggerated movements infuse the drawing with a sense of whimsy, the massive prison fortress behind them suggests surveillance and control. Although not overtly political, this detail may allude to Venice\u2019s fall to the French in 1797, which led to a ban on the commedia dell\u2019arte, Italy\u2019s popular theater tradition with its mocking Punchinellos.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry. \"Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella by the younger Tiepolo.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 4 (April 1938): 46-49.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 48; Reproduced: p. 51",
"url": "https://www.jstor.org/stable/25138005"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 575",
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