Tiepolo Giovanni

The Venetian painter and engraver Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo studied painting with his father JB Tiepolo. From the middle of the 1750s the artist independently carried out orders, and in 1760

The composition is performed for the altar of the Church of Santa Maria del Rosario in Venice. The Virgin hovers on a throne-like yellow-gold cloud under a canopy on a

This picture was ordered by Tiepolo’s wife Contarini on the occasion of the birth of their long-awaited firstborn heir. Therefore, it is not surprising that the center of the composition

In the art of Tiepolo, compositional and coloristic perfection is combined with boundless creative imagination, masterly mastery of the drawing and careful study of the model – with the inspired

Tiepolo was a master of oil sketching. To compare with him in this genre could, perhaps, only Rubens. In the process of work on the order Tiepolo, as a rule,

In 1750, Tiepolo received an invitation to decorate with frescoes the throne room of the residence of the ruler of Franconia, Archbishop Greyfenklau. To paint the residence of the artist

As the ancient myth says, Amphitrite is the daughter of the sea prophetic elder, Nereus, and the wife of the lord of the seas of Poseidon. Poseidon abducted her when

Flora – in Roman mythology, the goddess of flowering, ears, flowers, gardens. On a feast in honor of Fora, fans on her altar brought blossoming ears. Games in honor of

After the assassination of his father, the Macedonian king Philip, his son Alexander began to actively win the world’s affairs, having completed the work of his father, who laid the

According to the stories of Roman historians Rome was populated by some men, as neighboring tribes did not want to marry their daughters for the poor suitors of Rome. Then

Documents to accurately date this fresco are not preserved, but one of Reynolds’s drawings from 1752 reproduces just this scene, which allows us to conclude that it was created by

After Jesus was crucified, the soldiers heaved a heavy cross on Him and led him to a frontal place called Golgotha. On the way, they grabbed Simon from Cyrene, who

Although, as already mentioned, Tiepolo was considered, mainly, a master of a fresco, his hand belongs to a number of outstanding altar images. His first altar image, he created for

Tiepolo – one of the brilliant representatives of the Venetian school of the XVIII century, the largest late Baroque artist. He possessed a truly virtuosic ability of the draftsman. The

The plot of this picture was taken from the “Natural History” by the ancient Roman writer and scholar Pliny the Elder. In “Natural History” Pliny, in particular, mentions that Cleopatra

The fresco of the Villa Valmarana in Vicenza. The plot is borrowed from the epic poem of the Italian poet Tasso “Liberated Jerusalem”. This is an idealized account of the

Roman commander Lucius Quintius Cincinnatus was distinguished by the simplicity and modesty of life, than earned the respect of his compatriots. After retiring from the business, he worked with his

In December 1760, Francesca Maria Tassi, an art critic, wrote to her friend, the well-known collector, Count Giacomo Carrara: “Tiepolo now writes waist-length figures commissioned by the Empress of Moscow,

One of the ten paintings series for the Palazzo Dolphin in Venice presents the story of the commander Marcia Coriolan. Winner in the war of the Romans with the Wolski

Portraits make up only a small part of Tiepolo’s enormous artistic heritage, but the works that have come down to us show the artist’s ability to convey not only the

Tiepolo began his engraving not earlier than the 1730s and 40s, and in his legacy there are not too many works done in this technique. The artist managed to create