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A Sorcerer Examining Animal Skulls
Also titled Een tovenaar bekijkt dierenschedels
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696–1770)
in or before c. 1750
- Medium
- paper
- Classification
- Dimensions
- height 225 mm x width 178 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the J.W. Edwin Vom Rath Fonds/Rijksmuseum Fonds
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
This print belongs to the series Scherzi di fantasia, a title perhaps best translated as ‘Fantastic jokes.’ In these prints Tiepolo was not telling a story, but rather transporting the viewer into a bizarre dream world populated by wizards and fabulous creatures. Death and decay are continually on the lurk.
