"Tiepolo's style, and the same is true for opera, is that more is more."
Curator Xavier Salomon on the painting "The Triumph of Marius" by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
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Photography by Oi-Cheong Lee
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Triumphal March from Aida, Giuseppe Verdi
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How The Triumph of Marius is about the losers as much as the winners
"Tiepolo's style, and the same is true for opera, is that more is more."
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1729