1753
ink
From the collection of National Gallery of Art
Dominant colour
The Episode of the Falling Idol is a 1753 ink by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, a Romanticism work, held at National Gallery of Art.
This black-and-white print shows a group of people in a garden. A man leans on a cane, watching as a child points at a broken statue on a pedestal. Trees fill the background, and a woman holds another child’s hand. The scene looks calm but has a quiet tension. The broken statue hints at something unexpected happening. The artist used a technique that lets them capture fine details with lines and shading. Next, check out etching to see how artists like Tiepolo made prints like this.
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (August 30, 1727 – March 3, 1804) was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo.
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