Gallery 600 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

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  • America
    America

    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727–1804 Venice)

    Accession Number: 43.85.20

  • Geometry
    Geometry

    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Workshop (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)

    Date: 1760
    Accession Number: 43.85.15

  • The Battle of Vercellae
    The Battle of Vercellae

    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)

    Date: 1725–29
    Accession Number: 65.183.3

  • The Triumph of Marius
    The Triumph of Marius

    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)

    Date: 1729
    Accession Number: 65.183.1

  • The Capture of Carthage
    The Capture of Carthage

    Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)

    Date: 1725–29
    Accession Number: 65.183.2

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Three enormous canvases by Tiepolo greet visitors to the Metropolitan Museum's galleries of European paintings at the top of the Grand Staircase. These theatrical compositions celebrating victories of ancient Roman generals enthralled guests in the palace of the Dolfin family in Venice in the later 1720s. Blessed with a fecund imagination and matchless technical virtuosity, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo brought to a close the great age of Venetian painting that had begun in the Renaissance with Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, and Titian. The Metropolitan owns the most important collection of Tiepolo's work outside Venice, including the canvas for the ceiling of the Ca' Barbaro in Venice and frescoes from the Palazzo Valle-Marchesini-Sala in Vicenza.

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