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The original map of the lower course of the river The son of a sea-captain and marine merchant, who measures 15', that of the middle course, from Benares left behind him a considerable fortune, Tiepolo mar- to Patna, measures 4' 3" square. In addition there is ried, in 1721, Cecilia, the sister of the painter Guardi, a map of similar dimensions of the Gagra, the whole by whom he had nine children. His earliest master accompanied by numerous notes, sketches of particu- was Lazzerini, but his artistic career was derived from lar parts, and maps giving details — ^an "enormous la- a careful study of the works of Titian, Piazzeta, Ricci, bour", as Bernoulli calls It. He also wrote a work on and especially Veronese. Up to 1750 he worked in

the regions containing the sources of the chief rivers of India. In the field of religions he wrote on Brah- minism a work tlirected against the errors of the Eng- lishmen Z. HolwcU and Alexander Dow. (3thers of his writings were on Indian idolatry, Indian asceti- cism, the religion of the Par.sees, Mohammedanism,

Venice and various places in the north of Italy, painting some remarkable works at Milan, in Brescia, and in one or two villas near Venice. He then, ac- companied by his son, travellcfl to Wiirzburg, where he resided for three years, executing some magnificent ceihng paintings in the palace of the archbishop. He

the relations of these religions to one another, etc. was back again in Venice in 1753, full of commissions, His writings in the dejiartment of the natural sciences elected President of the Academy of Padua, and hold- are: astronomical observations on the sun-spots and ing high distinction in his native town. In 1761 he the zodiacal light, studies on the astronomy, astrology, acccjitcd the invitation of Charles III, King of Spain, and cosmology of the Hindus, descriptions and obser- to come to that country to dccor.itc the royal palace

vations of the flora and fauna of India. The department of history is represented by writings in Latin on the origin of the Hindus and of their religion, an account in German of the ex- j)editions of Nadir Shah to India, the deeds of the Great Mogul Shah Alam in Persian, and in French the incursions of the Afghans and the conquest of Delhi, and the contempo- rary history of India for the years 1757-64. In linguistics he wrote a Sanscrit- Parsee lexicon, trea- tises in Latin on the language of llie Par- sees, on the proper pronunciation of Latin, etc.

Ticff entailer sent these works in manuscript partly to the Danish scholar Dr. Kratzenstein at Copen- hagen, partly to the celebrated French Orientalist and geographer A. H. .Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1 SOo). The latter gave due credit to the value and impor- tance of the works, especially those on geography, in his addresses before the French Academy of Sciences ("Journal des Scavans", Dec, 1776), and made the writings of TiefTentaller partly accessible to the learned world in his "Recherches hist, et gcogr. sur rinde" (1786), and also in his "Carte gcnerale du cours du Gauge et du Gagra dressi^e par les cartes particulieres du P. Tieffenthaler" (Paris, 1784). A part of the manuscrijits at Copenhagen were obtained by the German scholar .lohann Bernoulli of Berlin who used them in connexion with the "Recherches" of Anquetil for the great work "Des Pater Joseph Tieffenthalers d. C!es. Jesu und apost. Missionarius in Indien historisch-geographische Beschreibung von Hindustan . . ." (3 volumes, quarto, Berlin-Gotha, 178.5-87). The greater part of the first two volumes is devoted to Tieffentaller's writings, his maps, and sketches. The French edition, entitled: " Description hist, et gcogr. dc I'lnde . . .", appeared at Berlin in

vSt. DoMlNin Giambattista Tiepolo, Church of the Gesuati, Venice

nf Madrid. Unfor- tunately, during his residence there he in- curred the jealousy and the bitter oppo- sition of Raphael Mengs. He is the last of the great Vene- tian painters; his works;ue magnificent in force, brilliance, .I'lid skill. As a il I lughtsman and '■"ii'iirist, few have a|iproached him; as un ficiier, he took a higli jKisition.

Giovanni Dome- Nico, son and pupil of the elder Tiepolo, b. in ^'eniee, 30 August, 1727; d. there, 3 March, 1804. He was his father's as- sistant but far in-

ferior in every respect in draughtsmanship and col- ouring. His best work is the ceiling in the Palazzo Ducale at Genoa. In his latter years, having satis- factory means, he retired to a villa near Venice and lived in comfort. His marriage had taken place in 1776, and was a scene of great pomp and magnificence. His widow married .again after his decease, and the male line of Tiepolo died out with him.

Sack. GiamhaUiata und Dnmmico Tiepolo (Berlin, 1910); MoLMENTi, (1. B. Tiepolo (Milan, 1909); Lanzi, Storia Pillorica delta Italia (Baj^ano, IS09); Pittoni, Dei Pitoni Ariisii Vencti (Bergamo. 190,5).

George Charles Williamson.

Tiemey, Mark Aloysut.s, b. at Brighton, Sept., 1795; d. at Arundel, 19 Feb., 1862. After his early schooling with the Franciscans at Baddesley Green, Warwickshire, he was educated at St. Edmund's Col- lege, Old Hall, which he entered in 1810 and where he was ordained jiriest, 19 Sept., 1818. He remained at the college;is ])rr and procurator in 1818-19. He then served;i,s:issist;int priest at Warwick Street, London,;ind afterwards at Liiicolirs-lnn Fields till his ill-health necessitalcil his removal to the country mi.s- sion of Slindon in Sus.sex. In 1S24 he was appointed chaplain to (he Duk<' of Xorf(,lk at .•\rundel, where

three vols., 4to (178(j-91). A Large part of his m.anu- he spent the rest of his life, devoting himself to his- scripts are probably still extant in Paris and Copen- torical and anti(|u;iri:in studies. His chief object was

to bring out a new edition of Dodd's "Church His- tory of Engl;in<l", which should incorporate all the documents collected by himself and Kirk. The first volume appeared in ls:i9, but on the imblication of the fifth volume in 1843 the work w;is unfortun.ately discontinued, as the reviv.al of the history of ( he seven- teenth-century disputes lietween seculars and regulars

hagen.

HroNDER, Deutsrhe Jestiitenmis'^i^n&re deg 17. und IS. Jahrh. (FreiburK. 1899). 179; NoTI, Jon. Tieffenlatter, S.J.. A Forgotten CeoftTfipher of India (Bombav, 190r»); HortTRN. Jenuil Mi.t/iionnrie.t in SoTtluTu India (Calcutta, 1907). A. HUONDER.

Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista), b. in V<>nice in 1696; d. at Madrid, 27 March, 1770.