The 87 of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Apollo and the ContinentsApollo and the ContinentsGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The perspectival distortion at the edges of the overall view of the ceiling fresco tell us that this was never intended as a vantage point for the visitor. Instead, the fresco was to open out to the viewer as he ascended the staircase. Apollo is portrayed in the centre of the heavens, Venus and Mars...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Death of HyacinthThe Death of HyacinthGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

In the foreground, accompanied by a putto, and with a sweeping gesture, Apollo laments Hyacinth, who he accidentally killed during a ball game, and whose body is impressively laid out on a red cloth. Behind them to the left, and somewhat distanced, is a group of onlookers included as staffage, while...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Theological VirtuesThe Theological VirtuesGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

This is a study (modello) of a fresco above the choir of the Santa Maria della Pietà in Venice. The final fresco closely follows the modello with only minor changes. The painting (Oil on canvas, octagonal, 38,8 x 38,1 cm) is now in the Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Last Communion of St LucyLast Communion of St LucyGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Still further proof of Tiepolo's extraordinarily eclectic talents comes from the fact that at the same period that he was working on the breathtakingly secular spectacle of the frescos in Palazzo Labia, he also painted his most religiously intense Venetian altarpiece. In no sense did he compromise t...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Rape of EuropaThe Rape of EuropaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giambattista Tiepolo very early withdrew from the lessons he was receiving from Gregorio Lazzarini, an academic of mediocre talents, and developed rather towards the vigorous chiaroscuro of Federico Bencovich and Piazzetta, renderíng their solutions still more refined and precious by using colours w...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Carrying the CrossCarrying the CrossGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Eighteenth-century Venetian art, usually seen as more profane than sacred, was surprisingly inventive in terms of religious subject matter, none more so than that of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in both his etchings and paintings. This Carrying the Cross, panoramic in the greatest Venetian tradition, ...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Martyrdom of St AgathaThe Martyrdom of St AgathaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

This picture was painted c. 1756 for the high altar of the church of S. Agata in Lendinara. It must originally have been rounded at the top, for it appears in this form in an etching by Tiepolo's son, Giovanni Domenico. The part which is now missing showed a heart surrounded by the crown of thorns i...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Apollo and DaphneApollo and DaphneGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The dramatic episode of Apollo and Daphne, as narrated by Ovid in the 'Metamorphoses', is staged in front of an almost Alpine backdrop. Daphne escapes the attentions of Apollo, who has fallen madly in love with her, by turning herself into a tree. The moment in which the transformation begins is rep...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Hagar in the WildernessHagar in the WildernessGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Hagar, Abraham's handmaiden, with whom he had conceived the illegitimate son Ishmael, had been driven from the house by Sarah. The theme of this representation is the appearance of the angel, who saves the completely exhausted Hagar, leaning against an empty barrel in the desert, and her son from dy...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Immaculate ConceptionThe Immaculate ConceptionGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

In an awe-inspiring, powerful manifestation, the Virgin Mary hovers in the skies, atop a globe, and in front of a yellow background. Above her the dove appears, symbolizing the Holy Spirit. The palm tree in the foreground is a symbol of Mary's victory and superiority over evil in the world, the snak...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Discovery of the True CrossDiscovery of the True CrossGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

According to legend, St Helen, the mother of Constantine the Great, discovered the True Cross on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. Tiepolo portrays the saint, in daring foreshortening from below, making a triumphal gesture in front of the Cross, which towers up into the sky. She is surrounded by the usual ...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Rinaldo and ArmidaRinaldo and ArmidaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Gerusalemme Liberata (Jerusalem Liberated), the great heroic epos by Torquato Tasso (1544-1595), published in 1581, not only inspired Tiepolo to create his series of paintings in the Tasso Hall of the Villa Valmerana near Vicenza, but also to create individual portrayals such as this one. The episod...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Sacrifice of IphigeniaThe Sacrifice of IphigeniaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The sacrifice of Iphigenia takes place in an illusionistic hall of columns, which partially block the spectator's view of the scene. In the centre of the picture, Iphigenia lies on the altar, the priest ready to apply the knife. However, the deer hind sent by Diana to save Iphigenia is already desce...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - An Allegory with Venus and TimeAn Allegory with Venus and TimeGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

To enter fully the radiant world of Tiepolo we must travel - to Venice, his native city, then back to the mainland to Udine and Vicenza, across the Alps to Würzburg in Bavaria, finally to Madrid in Spain where, fearing the shift of taste in his homeland, he elected to spend the last years of his lif...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - WorshippersWorshippersGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giambattista Tiepolo collaborated with the Venetian quadratura painter Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna on the ceiling fresco of the nave of the church of St. Mary of Nazareth called the 'Scalzi', completing the work in 1743-45 following the careful preparation of studies and models. The grandiose fresco d...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Madonna of the GoldfinchMadonna of the GoldfinchGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Eighteenth century Venetian painters tended to use high keyed, muted colors, possibly reflecting the current vogue for pastels. According to legend, the goldfinch acquired the red spot on its brow when it removed a thorn from Christ's head during his ascent to Calvary, and was splashed with a drop o...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Fortitude and JusticeFortitude and JusticeGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Tiepolo decorated the ceiling in the Scuola dei Carmini with the canvases Apparition of the Virgin to St Simon Stock, together with virtues and allegories. For this corner canvas Tiepolo took his inspiration from Veronese's work in the Sala del Collegio of the Palazzo Ducale. He brought his models u...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Vision of St AnneThe Vision of St AnneGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Vision of St Anne was painted in 1759 for the church of Santa Chiara at the Benedictine monastery in Cividale, Friuli. The building can be made out in the small image in the background, together with the Santuario di Castelmonte and the old bridge over the River Natisone. The painting was remove...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Bellerophon on PegasusBellerophon on PegasusGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The ceiling fresco is conceived as an illusionistic view of the heavens, where Bellerophon rides upon the white winged-steed Pegasus towards Glory, untroubled by the old man with the lance at the bottom of the picture, who can no longer harm him. Glory is personified by a female figure in golden yel...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Christ Carrying the CrossChrist Carrying the CrossGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The subject of the painting is Christ's carrying of the cross to the hill of Golgotha, which rises up in the centre of the picture as a tall rock, the crosses already erected upon it. Directly beneath it in the foreground we see Christ in a flame red robe. He has collapsed under the heavy weight of ...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Mercury Appearing to AeneasMercury Appearing to AeneasGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Mercury, sent by Zeus, appears to the sleeping Aeneas in a dream and reminds him of his orders to establish a city in Italy. Aeneas consequently abandons Dido. The fresco shows the hero asleep on a rock in front of an unidentified landscape, while Mercury floats on a cloud above him. His hand points...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Venus and VulcanVenus and VulcanGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Tiepolo's fresco on the vault of the Halberdiers' Room in the Royal Palace depicts Venus charging Vulcan to forge the arms of Aeneas, a topic taken from Virgil's Aeneid and chosen for the military function of the room. The stucco decoration was executed by Bartolomeo Rusca.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Rinaldo and Armida1Rinaldo and Armida1Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Tiepolo illustrated in two horizontal paintings Tasso's Renaissance epic poem Gerusalemme Liberata. The lovers Rinaldo and Almira are first seen in Armida's ravishing Palladian magical garden, then at Rinaldo's reluctant departure. These Mozartian paintings are either bozzetti or replicas in small f...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Banquet of CleopatraThe Banquet of CleopatraGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Magnificent, brightly lit palace architecture is the setting for Cleopatra's banquet. However, the historical event of the meeting between the Queen of Egypt and the Roman Anthony takes second place to the creation of an opulent banqueting scene in the manner of Veronese. It is therefore the sumptuo...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Jupiter and DanaëJupiter and DanaëGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Jupiter and Danaë (1736) is an oil on canvas painting, now in the collection of the Universitet Konsthistoriska Institutionen, Stockholm. Danaë is frequently represented in Renaissance and Baroque painting.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Adoration of the MagiAdoration of the MagiGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Tiepolo painted this altarpiece during his stay in Germany. Because if the damp climate, he could only work on the frescoes in the Würzburg Residenz in the spring and summer. So in the fall and winter he had to concentrate on painting in oil on canvas. He produced some fantastic and exotically beaut...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Apollo and MarsyasApollo and MarsyasGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

With the similar sized paintings of Diana and Acteon, Diana and Callisto, and the Rape of Europa, this painting belonged to a single decorative series, probably in a building in Belluno. The painting is in Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Death of SophonisbaThe Death of SophonisbaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

This painting is a sketch for a much larger work, and its thickly applied and large brushstrokes indicate that it was rapidly executed. The painting (1755-60, Oil on canvas, 49 x 38 cm) is now in the Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Sacrifice of IsaacThe Sacrifice of IsaacGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The central ceiling painting depicts the sacrifice of Isaac. Accompanied by a shaft of divine light, an angel floats down on a cloud to stay Abraham's hand just as he is about to slay his son as commanded by God. The ram, which is to be sacrificed in Isaac's place can already be seen on the lower ed...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Woman with a ParrotWoman with a ParrotGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Although Tiepolo did from time to time produce excellent portraits, this luminous painting may not be a portrait at all. It is, however, almost a symbol of eighteenth-century grace. The rosy bust of the extremely pretty young girl can without disadvantage be compared to the sensual female half busts...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Judgment of SolomonThe Judgment of SolomonGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The large oblong painting in the centre of the ceiling shows a wide flight of stairs, seen from below at an oblique angle, on which King Solomon is enthroned in front of a canopy of cloth, acting in his capacity as a judge. The moment in which the true mother is revealed is re-enacted here. Contrary...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Prophet IsaiahThe Prophet IsaiahGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The painting depicts the prophet Isaiah at the moment where he is called to prophecy. The approaching angel holds a piece of burning coal to his lips with tongs and so brings about the forgiveness of his sins. Isaiah hears the voice of the Lord and agrees to his mission.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Apollo and DianaApollo and DianaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giambattista chose to decorate only one of the rooms in the foresteria at the Villa Valmarana. In the so-called Olympus Room he frescoed Mars, Venus and Amor; Mercury; Time; Jupiter; and Apollo and Diana. This last fresco shows the two deities sitting on a cloud. Apollo, who faces the viewer, holds ...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Temptations of St AnthonyTemptations of St AnthonyGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Temptations of St Anthony is an oil on canvas, (40 x 47 cm) painting in Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan. This is a juvenile work by the artist.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Rage of AchillesThe Rage of AchillesGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Outraged at having lost his beloved, Achilles draws his sword to kill Agamemnon. The sudden appearance of the goddess Minerva, who, in this fresco, has grabbed Achilles by the hair, prevents the act of violence. Agamemnon stands to the left and tries to shield himself with his cloak, while in the ba...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Thetis Consoling AchillesThetis Consoling AchillesGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Achilles sits on the balustrade of a balcony in a loggia on the seashore, his legs dangling illusionistically down into the viewer's space, and bemoans his fate. Out in the water, his mother, the sea-goddess Thetis, appears in the company of a Nereid, and attempts to console him. The picture, largel...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Jacob-s DreamJacob's DreamGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The fresco illustrates Jacob's dream of the ladder to heaven. The artist has moved the ladder, seen ascending into the divine light, from the centre of the picture slightly towards the left. The sleeping Jacob sees in his dream the vision of a divine prophecy, in which he is promised numerous descen...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - NativityNativityGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

This is one of Tiepolo's most interesting and least known religious works. Set in a room (the Sacristy of the Canonici) that is rarely visited, in the midst of golden mosaics, it offers the excitement of a true discovery. Now in Basilica di San Marco, Venice.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Banquet of Cleopatra1The Banquet of Cleopatra1Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

The table for Cleopatra's banquet is laid out in front of a portico, behind which the sails of the Raman fleet are visible. The somewhat static ordering of the main figures is relaxed by the ironic positioning in the foreground of the little dog and the dwarf, who drags himself with difficulty up th...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Rinaldo Abandoning ArmidaRinaldo Abandoning ArmidaGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

During the crusades, Rinaldo, who had allowed himself to be carried off to an island by the sorceress Armida, stayed away from the fighting. Two warriors were sent to bring him back. They discover him in Armida's enchanted garden and hold up to him a shield, as a mirror in which he recognizes that h...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Last SupperThe Last SupperGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The Last Supper (1745-47), is an oil on canvas painting, (81 x 90 cm), now in the collection of the Musée du Louvre, Paris. This painting belongs to a series of six pictures on the Life of Christ.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Force of EloquenceThe Force of EloquenceGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The frescoes of mythological and allegorical subjects in the main hall and two other chambers of the Palazzo Sandi are among Tiepolo's greatest works. They reveal that he was already master of a distinctive and independent style. The picture shows Bellerophon on Pegasus slaying the Chimera.

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Martyrdom of St. BartholomewThe Martyrdom of St. BartholomewGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

To the testament of Andrea Stazio, a Venetian nobleman who died in 1722, we owe a cycle of paintings of great importance in the history of Venetian art. The will provided that twelve canvases should be painted for the church of San Stae (Venetian for St Eustace). All similar in size, they depict epi...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Pope St Clement Adoring the TrinityPope St Clement Adoring the TrinityGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

The painting shows Pope Clement I at prayer, in an ecclesiastical architectural setting which cannot be identified more closely, before a vision of the Holy Trinity. The lively facial expressions suggest a conversation between Clement and God the Father, which is further dramatized by the strong chi...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Neptune Offering Gifts to VeniceNeptune Offering Gifts to VeniceGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

This painting in the Sala delle Quattro Porte is one of the last public works commissioned by the Venetian Republic. As its thousand years of history drew to a close, the city commissioned this painting of Neptune pouring out the treasures of the sea and the riches of commerce before Venice. It was ...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Virgin with Six SaintsThe Virgin with Six SaintsGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

In Venetian Cinquecento paintings of the Madonna, the Virgin and Child are usually represented in a terrestrial environment, with a landscape background, in the company of saints. This type of 'santa conversazione' was subsequently altered to suit the taste of the baroque era: in most instances the ...

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - Angelica and Medoro with the ShepherdsAngelica and Medoro with the ShepherdsGiovanni Battista Tiepolo

Angelica is the daughter of a king of Cathay in Orlando Furioso, by the Italian poet Ariosto (1474-1533), a romantic epic poem about the conflict between Christians and Saracens at the time of Charlemagne. Angelica was loved by several knights, Christian and pagan, among them the Christian hero Orla...