Gallery 622 - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Oil Sketches

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European Paintings Gallery 622

Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Date: 1752
Accession Number: 1977.1.3
The Investiture of Bishop Harold as Duke of Franconia
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Date: ca. 1751–52
Accession Number: 71.121
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Accession Number: 37.165.3
Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Date: 1758–59
Accession Number: 37.165.2
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696–1770 Madrid)
Accession Number: 1980.363

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo's fame and consummate skill brought him to work outside Italy, for ecclesiastic and royal patrons in Germany and Spain. On view in this gallery are dazzlingly vertiginous oil sketches for some of his most celebrated projects, including the fresco decoration of the immense ceiling of the staircase in the Residenz, Würzburg, and ceilings in the newly built Palacio Real in Madrid. His son Giovanni Domenico preferred less exalted subjects, such as the enchanting Dance in the Country of about 1755.

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