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  1. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo lived in the XVII – XVIII cent., a remarkable figure of Italian Rococo. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.

  2. He painted canvases for churches such as that of Verolanuova (1735–1740), for the Scuola Grande dei Carmini (1740–1747), in Cannaregio, a ceiling for the Palazzi Archinto and Palazzo Dugnani in Milan (1731), the Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo (1732–1733), a ceiling for the Gesuati (Santa Maria del Rosario) in Venice of St. Dominic Instituting ...

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    • Rococo
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  4. Tiepolos greatest works are unquestionably the frescoed ceilings he carried out for churches in Venice and villas and palaces in Italy, Germany (Residenz, Würzburg), and Spain (Palacio Real, Madrid). The high point is marked by the ceilings painted between 1750 and 1753 for the prince-bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau in Würzburg.

  5. The Glorification of the Barbaro Family. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Italian. ca. 1750. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 642. Once part of a ceiling decoration at Venice’s Palazzo Barbaro, this painting was never intended to be seen head-on or at such close range.

  6. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Venetian, was the greatest Italian Rococo painter, although his style was founded on the Grand Manner of the High Renaissance. His imaginative decorative frescoes are light in colour and airy in feel; the National Gallery's 'Allegory with Venus and Time' was part of a ceiling decoration and is similarly light and airy.

  7. Among Tiepolos largest and most dazzling oil sketches, this picture shows Apollo about to embark on his daily journey across the sky. Deities around the sun god symbolize the planets, and allegorical figures at the edges personify Africa, the Americas, Asia, and Europe.

  8. 'Giovanni Battista Tiepolo also provided smaller decorative panels and a ceiling painting for what must have been a sparkling, light-filled room.' Allegory of Virtue and Nobility (1740 -...

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