{"product_id":"tiepolo-pink","title":"Tiepolo Pink","description":"\u003cp\u003e''Tiepolo: the last breath of happiness in Europe''\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe  eighteenth-century Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo spent his life  creating frescoes that are among the glories of Western art, yet he  remains shrouded in mystery. Who was he? And what was the significance  of the dark, bizarre etchings depicting sacrifice and magic, which he  created alongside his heavenly works? Roberto Calasso explores Tiepolo  as the last artist of the \u003ci\u003eancien régime \u003c\/i\u003eand at the same time the  first example of the \"painter of modern life\" evoked by Baudelaire. He  was the incarnation of that peculiar Italian virtue \u003ci\u003esprezzatura\u003c\/i\u003e: the art of not seeming artful.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTranslated by Alastair McEwen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''A brilliant, eccentric, provocative . . . and thoroughly splendid celebration of a great painter'' John Banville, \u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e''Calasso is a myth-maker ... a book that treats paintings as a kind of sorcery'' Peter Conrad, \u003ci\u003eObserver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"MediaPlace","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57317058707838,"sku":"NW9780241399422","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1379\/1261\/files\/9780241399422.jpg?v=1780048925","url":"https:\/\/mediaplace.com\/en-usa\/products\/tiepolo-pink","provider":"MediaPlace","version":"1.0","type":"link"}