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"tombstone": "Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children): A Spring Shower, 1797\u20131804. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, 1727\u20131804). Pen and brown ink and brush and brown wash over black chalk; framing lines in brown ink over graphite on antique laid paper; image: 29.6 x 41.5 cm (11 5/8 x 16 5/16 in.); sheet: 35.5 x 47.1 cm (14 x 18 9/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Purchase from the J. H. Wade Fund, 1937.573",
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"did_you_know": "Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, who often depicted multiple Punchinellos (a clown figure) in his drawings, added two in this scene\u2014the figure on the left with a cloak comically draped over his head, and another on the right holding an umbrella.",
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"description": "Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, an important Venetian fresco painter of the 18th century, is best known today for his highly finished historical drawings that ingeniously incorporate details from daily life. In his series of 104 drawings known as Divertimento per li Regazzi (Entertainment for Children), he featured the Punchinello character from the Italian tradition of popular theater, a picaresque clown figure with a hooked nose, hunched back, and bloated belly. The character appears repeatedly in Tiepolo's sprawling narrative that rehearses the social mores of late 18th-century Venice through genre scenes of daily life, comic misadventures, and pathetic tragedies. In this enigmatic scene, one of nine sheets from the Divertimento at the CMA, the artist depicted a group of seven figures from the back as they wander aimlessly amid a shower that literally drips down the white paper. Domenico's characteristically tremulous lines and broad, simple washes of brown ink, laid down over an initial sketch in black chalk, capture a fresh and misty atmospheric effect that magnifies the pensive quality of the scene. The artist made this and other drawings from the series as finished works without correlations in other media.",
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"citation": "\u201cArt Throughout America: Cleveland: Tiepolo Drawings from a Famous Series.\u201d The Art News 37, no. 34 (May 20, 1939): 15.",
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"citation": "Francis, Henry S. \"Six Drawings from the Life of Pulcinella by the Younger Tiepolo.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 26, no. 4 (April 1939): 46-49.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 48",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25138005"
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"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 24, cat. no. 99. Reproduced: p. 43 no. 99",
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"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 99, cat. no. 498.",
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"citation": "Tietze, Hans. European Master Drawings in the United States. New York: J.J. Augustin Publishers, 1947.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 198-199, no. 99",
"url": null
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"citation": "Benesch, Otto. Venetian Drawings of the Eighteenth Century in America. New York: H. Bittner and Company, 1947.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pl. 42",
"url": null
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"citation": "Detroit Institute of Arts. Loan Exhibition of Old Master Drawings from Midwestern Museums: Detroit Institute of Arts, June 1-September 15, 1950. Detroit: Detroit Institute of Arts, 1950.",
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"url": null
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"page_number": "Reproduced: pp. 63-64, no. 82",
"url": null
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"citation": "Morassi, Antonio. \u201cUna Mostra del Settecento Veneziano a Detroit.\u201d Arte Veneta: Rivista Trimestrale di Storia dell\u2019Arte 25 (1953).",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 53-54. Reproduced: p. 53 fig. 43",
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"citation": "Muraro, Michelangelo and Andre Grabar. Treasures of Venice. Geneva: Skira, 1963.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 211",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 148",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n172"
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969.",
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"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n172"
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"citation": "Mariuz, Adriano. Giandomenico Tiepolo. Venice: Alfieri, 1971.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: fig. 36",
"url": null
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"citation": "The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 145",
"url": "https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n165"
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"citation": "Vetrocq, Marcia E., Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, and Adelheid M. Gealt. Domenico Tiepolo's Punchinello Drawings. Bloomington: Indiana University Art Museum, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 17, p. 82; Reproduced: p. 83, no. 23",
"url": null
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"citation": "Vetrocq, Marcia. \u201cThe Divertimento per li Regazzi of Domenico Tiepolo.\u201d PhD diss., Stanford University, 1979.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 143-144, cat. no. 55. Reproduced: p. 230 no. 55",
"url": null
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"citation": "Fehl, Philipp P. \u201cFarewell to Jokes: The Last Capricci of Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo and the Tradition of Irony in Venetian Painting.\u201d Critical Inquiry 5, no. 4 (Summer 1979): 761-791.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 791, fig. 23.",
"url": null
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"citation": "Gealt, Adelheid Medicus.\u201dThe courtship, marriage, and other exploits of Punchinello.\u201d Art News 78, no.9 (November 1979): 134-137.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: pp. 136-137",
"url": null
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"citation": "Carmean, E.A.. Picasso: The Saltimbanques. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1980.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 20, fig. 2",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "\u201cMuseum and Dealer\u2019s Catalogues: Frick Collection\u201d The Print Collector\u2019s Newsletter 11, no. 1 (March-April 1980).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 19",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Ashbery, John. \u201cPunch Lines.\u201d New York Magazine, February 18, 1980. 80.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 80.",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Knox, George. \"Domenico Tiepolo\u2019s Punchinello Drawings: Satire, or Labor of Love?\" In Satire in the 18th Century, edited by J.D. Browning, 124-146. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc., 1983.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 145 no .74",
"url": null
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"citation": "Borowitz, Helen O. \"Three Guitars: Reflections of Italian Comedy in Watteau, Daumier, and Picasso.\" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 71, no. 4 (1984): 116-29.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 122; Reproduced: p. 23 fig. 11",
"url": "http://www.jstor.org/stable/25159858"
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"citation": "Gealt, Adelheid Medicus and James Byam Shaw. Domenico Tiepolo: The Punchinello Drawings. New York: George Braziller, Inc., 1986.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 21, 160; Reproduced: frontispiece, pl. 68.",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Levey, Michael. Giambattista Tiepolo: His Life and Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 134 fig. 124",
"url": null
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{
"citation": "Mariuz, Adriano. \u201cI disegni di Pulcinella di Giandomenico Tiepolo.\u201d Arte Veneta 40, (1986).",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 273 fig. 11.",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Succi, Dario, Madelein Barbin, Annalia Delneri, Arnaldo Momo, and Michelangelo Muraro. I Tiepolo: Virtuosismo e ironia. Turin: Umberto Allemandi & Co., 1988.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 303 under no. 10, 322; Reproduced: p. 322.",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Pedrocco, Filippo. Disegni di Giandomenico Tiepolo. Milan: Berenice, 1990.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 90 no. 39; Reproduced: pl. 39",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Fehl, Philipp P. Decorum and Wit: The Poetry of Venetian Painting, Essays in the History of The Classical Tradition. Vienna: IRSA, 1992.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 348 fig. 224.",
"url": null
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"citation": "Martineau, Jane, and Andrew Robison. The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 1994.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: 329-30, 505, no. 223",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Alpers, Svetlana. \u201cPost-Genius Venice.\u201d Art in America (March 1995): 62-69.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 69.",
"url": null
},
{
"citation": "Scir\u00e9, Giovanna Nepi, et al. Splendori del Settecento Veneziano. Milan: Electa, 1995.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 476, no. 204.",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Gealt, Adelheid M., George Knox, Giuseppe Bergamini, and Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Domenico Tiepolo: Master Draftsman. Milan, Italy: Electa, 1996.",
"page_number": "Reproduced: p. 246, no. 74",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Paulin, Roger and Peter Hutchinson. Rilke\u2019s Duino Elegies. London: Duckworth and Ariadne Press, 1996.",
"page_number": "Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 77, fig. 4",
"url": null
},
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"citation": "Wolk-Simon, Linda. \"Domenico Tiepolo: Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art.\" The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 54, no. 3 (1996): 1-68.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: pp. 26 under no. 39, 68 no. 107",
"url": "doi:10.2307/3269143"
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art, Diane DeGrazia, and Carter E. Foster. Master Drawings from the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art in association with Rizzoli International Publications, New York, 2000.",
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"url": null
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"citation": "Mariuz, Adriano and Giuseppe Pavanello. Tiepolo: Ironia e comico. Venice: Marsilio, 2004.",
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"url": null
},
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"citation": "Calasso, Roberto. Il Rosa Tiepolo. Milan: Adelphi, 2006.",
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"citation": "McHale, Katherine. \u201cChild\u2019s Play? Giandomenico Tiepolo\u2019s Punchinello Drawings and the Fall of Venice.\u201d Master Drawings 50, no. 1 (Spring 2012): 95-114.",
"page_number": "Mentioned: p. 110; Reproduced: p. 111 fig. 17",
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},
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"citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
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