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The Immaculate Conception
Painting ID:: 1612
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The Immaculate Conception
1767-69
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
1767-69
_Museo_Nacional_del_Prado,_Madrid
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The Finding of Moses
Painting ID:: 1613
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The Finding of Moses
c1730
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh
c1730
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St.Thecla Liberating the City of Este from the Plague
Painting ID:: 1614
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St.Thecla Liberating the City of Este from the Plague
1759
Duome, Este
1759
_Duome,_Este
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Mercury Appearing to Aeneas
Painting ID:: 1615
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Mercury Appearing to Aeneas
1757
Villa Valmarana, Vicenza
1757
_Villa_Valmarana,_Vicenza
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The Last Communion of St.Lucy
Painting ID:: 1616
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The Last Communion of St.Lucy
1747-48
Santi Apostoli, Venice
1747-48_
Santi_Apostoli,_Venice
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1696-1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born in Venice on March 5, 1696. His father, who was part owner of a ship, died when Tiepolo was scarcely a year old, but the family was left in comfortable circumstances. As a youth, he was apprenticed to Gregorio Lazzarini, a mediocre but fashionable painter known for his elaborately theatrical, rather grandiose compositions.
Tiepolo soon evolved a more spirited style of his own. By the time he was 20, he had exhibited his work independently, and won plaudits, at an exhibition held at the church of S. Rocco. The next year he became a member of the Fraglia, or painters guild. In 1719 he married Cecilia Guardi, whose brother Francesco was to become famous as a painter of the Venetian scene. They had nine children, among them Giovanni Domenico and Lorenzo Baldassare, who were also painters.
In the 1720s Tiepolo carried out many large-scale commissions on the northern Italian mainland. Of these the most important is the cycle of Old Testament scenes done for the patriarch of Aquileia, Daniele Dolfin, in the new Archbishop Palace at Udine. Here Tiepolo abandoned the dark hues that had characterized his early style and turned instead to the bright, sparkling colors that were to make him famous. |
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