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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Death Giving Audience
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Death Giving Audience

Artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696 - 1770)
Date18th century
MediumEtching
DimensionsOverall: 5 5/8 x 6 15/16 in. (14.3 x 17.6 cm)
ClassificationsEuropean art
Credit LineThe Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
Object number81.8
Terms
  • Death
  • Italy
On View
Not on view
DescriptionThis is an etching; from Capricci series. A skeleton with cloth draped over his head and shoulders, sits on the ground, on the right side. A group of people behind a half-door watch the man. A mangy dog walks into the scene from the left side, foreground.

New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
18th century
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2017.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1761-65
Image scanned from a transparency and color-corrected by Pat Cagney.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
No Date
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2017.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1761-65
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2017.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1761-65
Photograph by Ed Pollard, Hasselblad H4D50 - 2017.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1761-65
4x5 transparency scanned on Hasselblad Flextight X1 by Ed Pollard-2009.
Giovanni Battista Boncori
ca. 1695
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2008.
Giovanni Battista Piranesi
ca. 1748