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Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was a painter and printmaker in etching, son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo....
(or Giandomenico Tiepolo); or Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo
Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo was an artist and son of the more famous Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1750 he travelled to W?rzburg with his father and brother, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, where he worked alongside them on the decorative fresco cycle in the W?rzburg Residence....
, both sons of Giovanni Battista.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) was a Venetian

Venice

Painting

Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . In art, the term describes both the act and the result, which is called a painting....
and printmaker. He was prolific and worked not only in the Veneto, but also in Germany and Spain, and is considered among the last "Grand manner

Grand manner

Grand Manner refers to an idealized aesthetic style derived from classicism, and the modern "classic art" of the High Renaissance. In the eighteenth century United Kingdom artists and connoisseurs used the term to describe paintings that incorporated visual metaphors in order to suggest noble qualities....
" fresco

Fresco

Fresco is any of several related painting types, done on plaster on walls or ceilings. The word fresco comes from the Italian word affresco which derives from the adjective fresco , which has Latin origins....
painters from the Venetian republic

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy, the capital city of the Italian regions Veneto, a population of 271,251 . Together with Padua, Italy, the city is included in the Padua-Venice Metropolitan Area ....
.

battista Tiepolo was born in Venice

Venice

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770) was a Venetian

Venice

Painting

Grand manner

Fresco

Venice

Biography

Early life (1696-1726)

Giambattista Tiepolo was born in Venice

Venice

Patricianship

Patricianship, the quality of belonging to a patriciate, began in the ancient world, where cities such as Ancient Rome had a class of patrician families whose members were the only people allowed to exercise many political functions....
family, Giambattista's father did not claim patrician status. The future artist was baptised in his parish church (S. Pietro di Castello) as Giovanni Battista, in honour of his godfather

Godparent

A godparent, in many denominations of Christianity, is someone who sponsors a child's baptism. Judaism has this equivalent in the Brit Milah ceremony....
, a Venetian nobleman called Giovanni Battista Dorià. His father Domenico died a year after his birth, leaving Orsetta in difficult financial circumstances.

Giambattista was initially a pupil of Gregorio Lazzarini

Gregorio Lazzarini

File:Gregorio Lazzarini 001.jpgGregorio Lazzarini was an italy painter, mostly of religious subjects, and those from history and mythology....
, but the influences from elder contemporaries such as Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci

Sebastiano Ricci was an Italy painter of the late Baroque school of Venice. About the same age as Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and an elder contemporary of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, he represents a late version of the vigorous and luminous Pietro da Cortona style of grand manner fresco painting....
and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was an Italy rococo Painting of religious subjects and Genre works....
are stronger in his work. At 19 years of age, Tiepolo completed his first major commission, the Sacrifice of Isaac (now in the Accademia

Accademia

The Accademia is best known now as a museum gallery of pre-1800s art in Venice, Italy. Situated on the south bank of the Grand Canal of Venice, it gives its name to one of the three bridges across the canal, the Ponte dell'Accademia, and to the boat landing station for the Water taxi water bus....
). He left Lazzarini studio in 1717, and was received into the Fraglia or guild of painters.

In 1719, Tiepolo was married to Maria Cecilia Guardi, sister of two contemporary Venetian painters Francesco

Francesco Guardi

Francesco Lazzaro Guardi was a Italy painter of veduta, a member of the Venetian School. He is considered to be among the last practitioners, along with his brothers, of the classic Venetian school of painting....
and Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Giovanni Antonio Guardi

Giovanni Antonio Guardi, also known as Gianantonio Guardi was an Italy painter. Guardi was one of the founders of the Venetian Academy in 1756....
. Together, Tiepolo and his wife had nine children. Four daughters and three sons survived childhood. Two sons, Domenico

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was a painter and printmaker in etching, son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo....
and Lorenzo

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo was an artist and son of the more famous Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. In 1750 he travelled to W?rzburg with his father and brother, Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, where he worked alongside them on the decorative fresco cycle in the W?rzburg Residence....
, painted with him as his assistants and achieved some independent recognition. His third son became a priest.

Early mature work (1726-50)

A patrician from the Friulian town of Udine

Udine

Udine is a city in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border....
, Dionisio Delfino, commissioned a fresco decoration of the chapel and palace from the young Tiepolo (completed 1726-1728). Tiepolo's first masterpieces in Venice were a cycle of enormous canvases painted to decorate a large reception room of Ca' Dolfin on the Grand Canal of Venice (ca. 1726–1729), depicting ancient battles and triumph.

These early masterpieces, novel for Venetian frescoes in their luminosity, brought him many commissions. He painted canvases for churches such as that of Verolanuova

Verolanuova

Verolanuova is a commune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is elemented with Verola + nuova ...
(1735-40), for the Scuola dei Carmini

Carmini

The church of Santa Maria del Carmini, also called Santa Maria del Carmelo and commonly known simply as the Carmini, is a small church in the sestiere or neighborhood of Dorsoduro in Venice....
(1740-47), and the Chiesa degli Scalzi (1743-1744; now destroyed) in Cannaregio

Cannaregio

Cannaregio is the northernmost of the six historic sestiere of Venice. It is the second largest sestiere by land area and the largest by population, with approximately 20,000 people....
, a ceiling for the Palazzi Archinto and Casati-Dugnani in Milan (1731), the Colleoni Chapel in Bergamo

Bergamo

Bergamo is a town in Lombardy, Italy, about 40km northeast of Milan. The commune is home to circa 117,000 inhabitants. It is served by the Orio al Serio Airport, which also serves the Province of Bergamo, and to a lesser extent Milan....
(1732-1733), a ceiling for the Gesuati

Gesuati

The church of il Gesuati, also called Santa Maria del Rosario is an 18th century church in the Sestieri Dorsoduro, facing the Giudecca canal in Venice....
(Santa Maria del Rosario) in Venice of St. Dominic Instituting the Rosary (1737-39), Palazzo Clerici, Milan (1740), decorations for Villa Cordellini at Montecchio Maggiore

Montecchio Maggiore

Montecchio Maggiore is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is situated approximately 12 km west of Vicenza and 43 km east of Verona, SP 246 passes through it....
(1743-1744) and for the ballroom of the Palazzo Labia

Palazzo Labia

Tiepolo frescoes the Würzburg Residenz (1750-53)

By 1750, Tiepolo's reputation was firmly established throughout Europe, and accompanied by his son Giandomenico, he traveled to Würzburg

Würzburg

W?rzburg is a city in the region of Franconia which lies in the northern tip of Bavaria, Germany. Located on the Main River, it is the capital of the Regierungsbezirk Unterfranken....
at the call of Prince Bishop Karl Philipp von Greiffenklau in 1750, where he resided for three years and executed magnificent ceiling paintings in the New Residenz

Würzburg Residence

The W?rzburg Residenz is a palace in W?rzburg, Germany. It was designed by several of the leading Baroque architecture architects. Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt and Maximilian von Welsch, leading representants of the Austrian/South German Baroque were involved as well as Robert de Cotte and Germain Boffrand, who were prominent architects of t...
palace (completed 1744). His painting for the grandiose Neumann

Balthasar Neumann

was a Germany military engineer and architect who developed a refined brand of Baroque architecture, fusing Austrian, Bohemian, Italian, and French elements to design some of the most impressive buildings of the period, including the W?rzburg Residence and the Basilica of the Vierzehnheiligen....
-designed entrance staircase (Treppenhaus) is A massive ceiling fresco at 7287 square feet (677 m²), and was completed in collaboration with his sons, Giandomenico and Lorenzo. His Allegory of the Planets and Continents depicts Apollo, embarking on his daily course; deities around him symbolize the planets; allegorical figures (on the cornice) represent the four continents, notably including America. He also frescoed the Kaisersaal salon.

Return to Venice and Veneto (1753-1770)

He then returned to Venice in 1753, Tiepolo was now richly in demand locally and abroad, where he was elected President of the Academy of Padua. He now completed theatrical frescoes for churches; the Triumph of Faith for the Chiesa della Pietà; panel frescos for Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico

Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. ...
(which now also holds his ceiling fresco from the Palazzo Barbarigo

Palazzo Barbarigo

Palazzo Barbarigo is a palace in Venice, Italy, situated on the Grand Canal of Venice of the city. It was originally built in the 16th century....
); and paintings for patrician villas in the Venetian countryside, such as Villa Valmarana in Vicenza

Vicenza

Villa Pisani

Villa Pisani is a late baroque villa at Stra, in the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. It was begun in the early 18th century on commission by the noble Venice Pisani family....
in Stra

Stra

Str? is a town in the province of Venice, Veneto, Italy. It is south of SR11. It is the location of the famed Villa Pisani located on the Brenta canal....
.

In celebrated frescoes at the Palazzo Labia

Palazzo Labia

Palazzo Labia is a baroque palace in Venice, Italy. Built in the 17th-18th century, it is one of the last great Palazzo of Venice. Little known outside of Italy, it is most notable for the remarkable frescoed ballroom painted between by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, with decorative works in trompe l'oeil by Gerolamo Mengozzi-Colonna....
, he depicted two frescoes on the life of Cleopatra: Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatraand Banquet of Cleopatra,as well as a central ceiling fresco depicts Triumph of Bellerophon over Time. He collaborated with an expert in perspective, Girolamo Mengozzi Colonna. Colonna who also designed sets for opera highlights the increasing tendency towards composition as a staged fiction in his frescoes. The architecture of theBanquet fresco also recalls Veronese's Wedding at Cannae. In 1757, he painted the altar piece commissioned by the family Thiene, the work represents the apotheosis of Saint Cajetan

Saint Cajetan

For the cardinal, see Thomas Cajetan.'For Saint Cajetan Catanoso, see Gaetano Catanoso.Saint Cajetan, born Gaetano dei Conti di Tiene, also Thiene is a Roman Catholic Church saint and founder of the Religious order of the Clerics Regular, better known as the Theatines....
, the altar piece is in the church of hamlet of Rampazzo in the Camisano Vicentino

Camisano Vicentino

Camisano Vicentino is a town in the province of Vicenza, Veneto, Italy. It is north of SP24.Sources...
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Frescoes for the Royal Palace in Madrid

In 1761, Charles III

Charles III of Spain

Charles III was list of Spanish monarchs 1759?88 , King of Kingdom of Naples and Kingdom of Sicily 1735?59 , and Duchy of Parma 1732?35 . He was a proponent of enlightened absolutism....
commissioned from the painter a ceiling fresco to decorate the throne room of the Royal Palace of Madrid

Royal Palace of Madrid

The Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in Madrid. King Juan Carlos of Spain and the royal family do not reside in this palace, instead choosing the smaller Palacio de la Zarzuela, on the outskirts of Madrid....
. The panegyric

Panegyric

A panegyric is a formal public speech , or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or object , a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical....
theme is the Apotheosis of Spain and has allegorical depictions recalling the dominance of Spain in the Americas and across the globe. In Spain, he incurred the jealousy and the bitter opposition of the rising champion of neoclassicism, Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs was an German painter, active in Rome, Madrid, and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassicism painting....
.

Tiepolo died in Madrid on March 27, 1770.

After his death, the rise of stern Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to quite distinct Cultural movement in the Decorative art and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw upon Western classical art and culture ....
and the post-revolutionary decline of royal absolutism led to the slow decline of the Tiepolo style, but had failed to dent his reputation. By 1772 Tiepolo's son was sufficiently famous to be documented as painter to Doge Giovanni Cornaro, in charge of the decoration of Palazzo Mocenigo a San Polo.

Critical assessment and legacy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Allegory of the Planets and Continents

In his most fluid elaborations, Tiepolo has closest affinity to Ricci, Piazzetta, and Federico Bencovich. He is a shadowless fresco artist, a sunnier rococo Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque. He is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he had ample competition in the Rome of his day, but he was equally adept and masterful with architectural design....
. His sumptuous historical set-pieces are enveloped in a regal luminosity. He is principally known for his fresco

Fresco

Baroque

In the the arts, the Baroque was a Western cultural Epoch , starting roughly at the beginning of the 17th century in Rome, Italy. It was exemplified by drama and grandeur in Baroque sculpture, Baroque painting, literature, Baroque dance, and Baroque music....
tradition begun a century before by Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona

Pietro da Cortona, byname of Pietro Berrettini was an Italian artist and architect of High Baroque. He is best known for painting fresco ceilings, a pursuit in which he had ample competition in the Rome of his day, but he was equally adept and masterful with architectural design....
, converting roof to painted sky, elevating petty aristocrats to divine status, and allowing for vast compositions that merged with the delicate ornamentation of the stucco frames. Like Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano

Luca Giordano was an Italy late Baroque painter and printmaker in etching....
, his palette was muted, almost water-color like. Like Giordano, he was prolific. With an unrivaled Sprezzatura
Sprezzatura

Sprezzatura, is a term that originates from Baldassare Castiglione?s The Book of the Courtier. It is defined as ?a certain nonchalance, so as to conceal all art and make whatever one does or says appear to be without effort and almost without any thought about it.? That is to say, it is the ability of the courtier to display ?an easy f...
, he painted worlds of fresco, and some such as the walls of Villa Valmarana in Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza, a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione....
, not only peer into the mythologic scenes, but are meant to relocate viewers into their midst. The earliest example of this is perhaps his canvases in the Ca' Dolfin, which allowed Tiepolo to introduce exuberant costumes, classical sculpture, and action that appears to spill from the frames into the room. Originally set into recesses, they were surrounded with frescoed frames.

While his painting is infused with the Venetian spirit, his luminosity is not seen in the previous masters; however, Tiepolo is considered the last "Olympian" painter of the Venetian Republic. Like Titian

Titian

File:Tizian 090.jpg Tiziano Vecelli or Tiziano Vecellio, born 1473/1490 , died 27 August 1576, better known as Titian , was the leading painter of the 16th-century Venice school of the Italian Renaissance....
before him, Tiepolo was an international star, treasured by royalty far afield for his ability to depict glory in fresco.

His children painted figures with a design similar to that of their father, but with distinctive, including genre, styles.

List of works

The Institution of the Rosary (1737-39).

Self portrait at Würzburg, with Giandomenico beside him .

Collecting Mana- National Museum of Serbia
National Museum of Serbia

The National Museum in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844. It is on Republic Square. Since it was founded, its collections have grown drastically....
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Paintings before 1740

Work	Date	Location
The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew	1722	San Stae San Stae San Stae is a church in central Venice, in the sestieri di Santa Croce.San Stae, an abbreviation for Saint Eustachius, has a main facade on the Grand Canal of Venice, constructed by Domenico Rossi, and richly decorated with statuary by Giuseppe Torretto, Antonio Tarsia, Pietro Baratta, and Antonio Corradini.... , Venice
The Rape of Europa	c. 1725	Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Allegory of the Power of Eloquence	c. 1725	Courtauld Institute, Modello Modello A modello, from the Italian, is a preparatory study or model, usually at a smaller scale, for a work of art or architecture, especially one produced for the approval of the commissioning patron.... for Palazzo Sandi, Venice
Frescoes	1726	Episcopal palace, Udine Udine Udine is a city in northeastern Italy, in the middle of Friuli-Venezia Giulia region, between the Adriatic sea and the Alps , less than 40 km from the Slovenian border....
Perseus & Andromeda	1730	Frick Collection Frick Collection The Frick Collection is an art museum located in Manhattan, New York City, United States. It is housed in the former residence of steel magnate Henry Clay Frick, which was designed by Carrere and Hastings and constructed in 1913-1914....
Education of the Virgin	1732	S. Maria della Consolazione (Fava), Venice
Angel rescuing Hagar	1732	Scuola di San Rocco, Venice
John the Baptist preaching	1732-1733	Cappella Colleoni Cappella Colleoni The Cappella Colleoni is a church/mausoleum in Bergamo, northern Italy.Dedicated to the saints St. Bartholomew, St. Mark the Evangelist and John the Baptist, it was built in 1472-1476 as the personal shrine for the famous condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni, a member of one of the most outstanding families of the city, and his beloved daught... , Bergamo
Beheading of John the Baptist	1732-1733	Cappella Colleoni Cappella Colleoni The Cappella Colleoni is a church/mausoleum in Bergamo, northern Italy.Dedicated to the saints St. Bartholomew, St. Mark the Evangelist and John the Baptist, it was built in 1472-1476 as the personal shrine for the famous condottiere Bartolomeo Colleoni, a member of one of the most outstanding families of the city, and his beloved daught... , Bergamo
Scourge of the Serpents	1732-1735	Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Joseph receiving ring from pharaoh	1732-1735	Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. It was built by John Soane as the world's first purpose-built public art gallery and opened in 1817....
Triumph of Zephyr and Flora	1734-1735	Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. ... , Venice
Jupiter and Danaë	1736	Universitet Konsthistoriska Institutionen, Stockholm
Pope St. Clement Adoring the Trinity	1737-1738	Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Saints Augustin, Louis de France, Jean l'evangeliste et un eveque	1737-1738	Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille The Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille is one of the largest museums in France, and the largest French museum outside of Paris.It was one of the first museums built in France, established under the instructions of Napoleon I at the beginning of the 19th Century as part of the popularisation of art : The Chaptal decree of 1801 selects fifteen F...
Institution of the Rosary	1737-1739	Santa Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
Christ Carrying the Cross	1737-1738	Sant'Alvise Sant'Alvise Sant'Alvise is a church in the sestiere of Cannaregio in Venice, northern Italy. According to tradition, it was built by Antonia Venier in 1338 and dedicated to St.... , Venice
The Madonna of Mount Carmel	1730s	Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan
Virgin with Six Saints	1737-1740	Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Works from 1740-1750

Work	Date	Location
The Virgin Appearing to St. Philip Neri	1740	Museo Diocesano, Camerino Camerino Camerino is small town of 7,000 inhabitants in the Marches , in the province of Macerata, Italy. It is located in the Apennine Mountains bordering Umbria, between the valleys of the rivers Potenza and Chienti, about 40 miles from Ancona....
The Gathering of Manna	1740-1742	Parrocchiale, Verolanuova Verolanuova Verolanuova is a commune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is elemented with Verola + nuova ...
The Sacrifice of Melchizedek	1740-1742	Parrocchiale, Verolanuova Verolanuova Verolanuova is a commune in the province of Brescia, in Lombardy. It is elemented with Verola + nuova ...
Virtue and Nobility putting Ignorance to Flight	1743	Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery Dulwich Picture Gallery is an art gallery in Dulwich, London. It was built by John Soane as the world's first purpose-built public art gallery and opened in 1817.... (modello for Villa Cordellina in Montecchio Maggiore)
Empire of Flora	1743	The Legion of Honor(San Francisco, CA)
Time Unveiling Truth	c. 1743	Museo Civico Palazzo Chiericati Palazzo Chiericati Palazzo Chiericati is a Renaissance palace in Vicenza , designed by Andrea Palladio.... , Vicenza
The Banquet of Cleopatra	1743-1744	National Gallery of Victoria National Gallery of Victoria The National Gallery of Victoria is an art gallery in Melbourne, Australia. Founded in 1861, it is the oldest and the largest public art gallery in Australia.... , Melbourne
Worshippers	1743-1745	Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Apollo and Daphne	1744-1745	Musée du Louvre, Paris
Discovery of the True Cross	c. 1745	Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Time Unveiling Truth	c. 1745-1750	Museum of Fine Arts Museum of Fine Arts The Museum of Fine Arts may refer to:* The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in Massachusetts, United States* The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in Texas, United States... , Boston
Frescoes of the story of Cleopatra	1746	Palazzo Labia Palazzo Labia Palazzo Labia is a baroque palace in Venice, Italy. Built in the 17th-18th century, it is one of the last great Palazzo of Venice. Little known outside of Italy, it is most notable for the remarkable frescoed ballroom painted between by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, with decorative works in trompe l'oeil by Gerolamo Mengozzi-Colonna.... , Venice
The Virgin Appearing to Dominican Saints	1747-1748	Santa Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice
Last Communion of St. Lucy	1747-1748	Santi Apostoli, Venice
The Glorification of the Barbaro Family	1749-1750	Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA.... , New York
St. James the Greater Conquering the Moors	1749-1750	Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest

Works after 1750

Work	Date	Location
Frescoes	1751-1753	Residenz, Wurzburg
Collecting Mana	c.1751	National Museum of Serbia National Museum of Serbia The National Museum in Belgrade, Serbia was founded in 1844. It is on Republic Square. Since it was founded, its collections have grown drastically.... , Belgrade
Allegory of Planets and Continents	1752	Metropolitan Museum of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art The Metropolitan Museum of Art is an art museum located on the eastern edge of Central Park, along what is known as Museum Mile, New York City in New York City, USA.... , New York
The Death of Hyacinth	1752-53	Thyssen-Bornemisza Collection, Madrid
Adoration of the Magi	1753	Alte Pinakothek, Munich
Coronation of the Virgin	1754	Kimbell Art Museum Kimbell Art Museum The Kimbell Art Museum is situated in the Cultural District of Fort Worth, Texas, USA. It houses a small collection of European, Asian and Pre-Columbian works, as well as hosting travelling art exhibitions.... , Dallas (modelo for Ospedale della Pietà)
An Allegory with Venus and Time	1754-58	National Gallery, London National Gallery, London The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
Frescoes from Roman mythology	1757	Villa Valmarana, Vicenza Vicenza Vicenza, a city in northern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province of Vicenza in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione....
A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher	c. 1755	National Gallery, London National Gallery, London The National Gallery in London, founded in 1824, houses a rich collection of over 2,300 paintings dating from the mid-13th century to 1900 in its home on Trafalgar Square....
The Theological Virtues	c. 1755	Musées Royaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
The Martyrdom of St. Agatha	c. 1756	Staatliche Museen, Berlin
Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue	1757-58	Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico Ca' Rezzonico is a palazzo on the Grand Canal of Venice in Venice. Today it is a public museum dedicated to 18th century Venice. ... , Venice
The Vision of St. Anne	1759	Gemäldegalerie, Dresden
Madonna of the Goldfinch	c. 1760	National Gallery of Art, Washington
Woman with a Parrot	1760-61	Ashmolean Museum Ashmolean Museum The Ashmolean Museum on Beaumont Street, Oxford, England, is the world's first university museum. Its first building is sometimes attributed to Christopher Wren, though there is no good evidence for this claim, and was built in 1678?1683 to house the collection or cabinet of curiosities Elias Ashmole gave Oxford University in 1677.... , Oxford
Apotheosis of the Pisani Family	1761-62	Villa Pisani Villa Pisani Villa Pisani is a late baroque villa at Stra, in the mainland of the Veneto, northern Italy. It was begun in the early 18th century on commission by the noble Venice Pisani family.... , Stra
San Carlo Borromeo	1767-1769	Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati Art Museum The Cincinnati Art Museum is one of the oldest art museums in the United States. Founded in 1881, it was the first purpose-built art museum west of the Allegheny Mountains....
The Immaculate Conception	1767-1769	Museo del Prado Museo del Prado The Museo del Prado is a museum and art gallery located in Madrid, the capital of Spain. It features one of the world's finest collections of European art, from the 12th century to the early 19th century, based on the former Spanish Royal Collection.... , Madrid
Glory of Spain	1762-1766	Throne Room of Royal Palace of Madrid Royal Palace of Madrid The Royal Palace of Madrid is the official residence of the King of Spain, located in Madrid. King Juan Carlos of Spain and the royal family do not reside in this palace, instead choosing the smaller Palacio de la Zarzuela, on the outskirts of Madrid....
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy	1762-1766	Queen's Antechamber, Palacio Real, Madrid
Venus and Vulcan	1762-1766	Halberdiers' Room, Palacio Real, Madrid\|

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Biography

Early life (1696-1726)

Early mature work (1726-50)

Tiepolo frescoes the Würzburg Residenz (1750-53)

Return to Venice and Veneto (1753-1770)

Frescoes for the Royal Palace in Madrid

Critical assessment and legacy

List of works

Paintings before 1740

Works from 1740-1750

Works after 1750

Further reading

External links