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Allegorical Figure Representing Asia

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This work is part of a series of allegorical representations of the Four Continents that originally served as overdoors. Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo based his figure of Asia on symbols codified in Cesare Ripa’s Iconologia (1593): the palm branch and camel. Like representations of saints or other figures that artists aimed to identify, these attributes were important signals to historical audiences, though in the case of the Four Continents, they eventually fed into racialized stereotypes. Like the other large-scale allegorical frescoes in this gallery, this panel was probably detached around 1900 from the Palazzo Valle Marchesini Sala in Vicenza.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Allegorical Figure Representing Asia
  • Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727–1804 Venice)
  • Medium: Fresco, transferred to canvas
  • Dimensions: 32 1/4 x 41 3/4 in. (81.9 x 106 cm)
  • Classification: Paintings
  • Credit Line: Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers, 1943
  • Object Number: 43.85.17
  • Curatorial Department: European Paintings

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