Tiepolo and the Pictorial Intelligence Author:Svetlana Alpers, Michael Baxandall This study by two brilliant and eminently readable art historians looks at Tiepolo`s works as an example of the specifically pictorial as distinguished from the verbal intelligence. Alpers and Baxandall show that Tiepolo`s greatness lies not in stories told, or in meanings pursued, but in the use of his visual medium-drawing, painting and natura... more »l lighting. They conclude with a study of his best and biggest painting, The Four Continents at W_rzburg, newly photographed for this book. An appendix offers a gazetteer for travellers.« less