Giambattista Tiepolo, pencil drawing on old paper with watermark vergellata circular lily, depicting apparition of Our Lady to St. Dominic, Giambattista Tiepolo. Preparatory Studies of the fresco in Saintta Maria del Rosario at the Jesuit Foundation Rafts (Dorsoduro, Venice). Mm 550x430. "This design is a detail that relates to the fresco with the institution of the rosary to St. Dominic made in the central section of the surface of the church. In this work, the Tiepolo Veronese expresses his

Giambattista Tiepolo, pencil drawing on old paper with watermark vergellata circular lily, depicting apparition of Our Lady to St. Dominic, Giambattista Tiepolo. Preparatory Studies of the fresco in Saintta Maria del Rosario at the Jesuit Foundation Rafts (Dorsoduro, Venice). Mm 550x430. "This design is a detail that relates to the fresco with the institution of the rosary to St. Dominic made in the central section of the surface of the church. In this work, the Tiepolo Veronese expresses his legacy. The great production of Tiepolo can only apart from the copious graphics that remains among the most fruitful of all the civilizations Venetian figurative. The most careful observation, in this drawing shows the characters of Caricature and exoticism that are proper and natural in our represent fisionimie typed taken from everyday reality noblemen, fops, serfs, peaSaintts, monks etc. A visual repertoire made up of figures of which the design gives us a small sample in the bottom left corner. The design is centered on the dynamics that precede and assist the compositional process, especially in relationships coloristic, luministic and color. In fact, the loose design and fluid, with its shadows prelude to the gradient of the range from soft and bright colors typical of the whole tiepoliana production. He reformulates the shadows and shades of the steps through the combination of colors. Not being able to observe closely the fresco, the design is the best tool for directly observing the work before it was expressed. So the graphic work is immense, as the fresco activities for practical reasons it was planned and organized on the drawings. ASORSTUDIO