“Tiepolo’s style, and the same is true for opera, is that more is more.”
Curator Xavier Salomon on the 1729 painting The Triumph of Marius by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
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Xavier Salomon
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Triumphal March from Aida, Giuseppe Verdi
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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