Tim Marlow TV - Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911 - Simon Schama TV -
Perhaps the last of the great Italian masters. Tim Marlow at the Courtauld 2/3
When hardly out of his teens he developed an extraordinary colourist of the first order, though this early mastery of technique made him frequently neglect form and composition. The more solid qualities of Paolo Veronese – depth of thought and balance of design – are frequently wanting in his work, but he approaches the earlier master in richness of colour and in the management of difficult effects of lighting. He decorated many Venetian churches and palaces with ceilings and frescoes full of turbulent movement and rich colour ... Tiepolo’s altarpieces and easel pictures show more clearly even than his frescoes how deeply he was imbued with the spirit of Paolo Veronese, for in these smaller works he paid more attention to the balance of composition, whilst retaining the luminosity of his colour harmonies. Encyclopaedia Britannica 1911
The largest ceiling fresco ever painted: painted in the 1750s by Venetian artist Giambattista Tiepolo it’s a vision of Apollo the sun-god. Simon Schama, Civilisations 1e7: Radiance, BBC 2018