Tiepolo

American  

[tee-ep-uh-loh, tye-paw-law] / tiˈɛp əˌloʊ, ˈtyɛ pɔ lɔ /

noun

1. Giovanni Battista 1696–1770, and his son, Giovanni Domenico 1727–1804, Italian painters.

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Tiepolo British  

/ tiːˈɛpəˌləʊ, ˈtjɛːpolo /

noun

1. Giovanni Battista (dʒoˈvanni batˈtista). 1696–1770, Italian rococo painter, esp of frescoes as in the Residenz at Würzburg

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Example Sentences

Models traversed the Tiepolo room in the 18th century Clerici Palace beneath images that included demons, walking to the beat of modems connecting mixed with classical music and hip hop.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 16, 2023

The sale also included a drawing by the 18th Century Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, described as "probably the most important find" at the hall, in Weston near Towcester.

From BBC • Nov. 17, 2021

Devoted to the 18th-century Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, it is a set-piece, a fixture in a museum that is, after all, Tiepolo-Central.

From New York Times • Dec. 24, 2020

Its brilliant white linens and Tiepolo blues make it seem as if the black-clad Washington has teleported into some Napoleonic-era palace, a grim, sober interloper from a humorless land of republican virtue.

From Washington Post • Sep. 21, 2017

On the same sad occasion my mother inherited a portion of some landed property in Friuli, which had belonged to an old aunt Tiepolo, who died intestate.

From The Memoirs of Count Carlo Gozzi; Volume the First by Gozzi, Carlo