Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696 -1770)

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter and engraver, born in Venice in 1693, died at Madrid in 1770. He was gifted with a great easiness of drawing, and a remarkable sense of color. He was probably the last survivor of the Grand Italian school of painting. He is especially know for his frescoes, painted in a large number of Italian villas, palazzos, and churches. He decorated the Accademia del Venezia, the Royal Palace of Madrid, and the palace of Wurzburg. His frescoes are known for their dramatic motion and a sense of perspective that dazzles the onlooker, especially in his painted ceilings.

Among his masterpieces, Apolo and the Continents, The Adoration of the Magi, Apotheosis of Spain and The Martyrdom of St. Agatha, etc.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Banquet of Cleopatra" (1743-1744) National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Allegory of the Planets and Continents" (1752) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Sacrifice of Isaac" (1726-1729) Palazzo Patriarcale, Udine	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Marriage of the Emperor Frederick Barbarossa to Beatrice of Burgundy" (1751) Imperial Hall of the Residenz, Wurzburg
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Bellerophon on Pegasus (detail) 1" (1746-1747) Palazzo Labia, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "John the Baptist Preaching" (1732-1733) Cappella Colleoni, Bergamo	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Woman with a Parrot" (1760-1761) Ashmolean Museum, Oxford	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Christ Carrying the Cross" (1737-1738) Sant'Alvise, Venice
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Bellerophon on Pegasus" (1746-1747) Palazzo Labia, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Prophet Isaiah" (1726-1729) Palazzo Patriarcale, Udine	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Jupiter and Danae" (1736) Universitet Konsthistoriska Institutionen, Stockholm	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Sacrifice of Iphigenia" (1757) Villa Valmarana, Vicenza
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Nativity" (1732) Basilica di San Marco, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "View of the stairwell" () Residenz, Wurzburg	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Angel Succouring Hagar" (1732) Scuola di San Rocco, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Apollo and the Continents" (1752-1753) Stairwell of the Residenz, Wurzburg
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra" (1746-1747) Palazzo Labia, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Triumph of Zephyr and Flora" (1734-1735) Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Rage of Achilles" (1757) Villa Valmarana, Vicenza	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Rinaldo Abandoning Armida" (1757) Villa Valmarana, Vicenza
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Jacob's Dream" (1726-1729) Palazzo Patriarcale, Udine	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Three Angels Appearing to Abraham" (1726-1729) Palazzo Patriarcale, Udine	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Temptations of St Anthony" () Pinacoteca di Brera, Milan	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Maecenas Presenting the Liberal Arts to Emperor Augustus" (1743) The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
Tiepolo "The Banquet of Cleopatra" (1745-1750) Palazzo Labia, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Apollo and Diana" (1757) Villa Valmarana, Vicenza	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Apollo and the Continents (Europe, overall view)" (1752-1753) Stairwell of the Residenz, Wurzburg	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Judgment of Solomon" (1726-1729) Palazzo Patriarcale, Udine
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Last Supper" (1745-1747) Musee du Louvre, Paris	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Neptune Offering to Venice the Riches of The Sea" (1745-1750) Palazzo Ducale, Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Allegory of Strength and Wisdom" (1740-1743) Museo Poldi Pezzoli, Milan	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "St James the Greater Conquering the Moors" (1749-1750) Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Abraham and the Three Angels" () Museo del Prado, Madrid	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Immaculate Conception" (1767-1769) Museo del Prado, Madrid	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Institution of the Rosary" (1737-1739) Santa Maria del Rosario (Gesuati), Venice	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Bellerophon on Pegasus (detail) 2" (1746-1747) Palazzo Labia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy" (1762-1766) Queen's Antechamber, Palacio Real, Madrid	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Apollo and the Continents" (1752-1753) New Residenz, The Wurzburg Palace	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "The Apotheosis of the Pisani Family (detail) 2" (1761-1762) Villa Pisani, Stra	Giovanni Battista Tiepolo "Apollo and the Continents (America, left-hand side)" (1752-1753) Stairwell of the Residenz, Wurzburg

The Epoch Times	Old Masters Sales Reveal Works New to the Market The Epoch Times - 24 Jan 2012 at 3:46am “The Arrival of Henri III at the Villa Contarini,” by Italian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770), estimated at $4 million to $6 million. (Courtesy of Christie's) “This oval-shaped painting pairs its harmonious subject with a composition that ...
Rare Old Master? Cue Furious Bidding New York Times - 3 Feb 2012 at 7:30am On that Wednesday the big winner at Christie's was the presentation picture, or modello, submitted by Giambattista Tiepolo in 1744 for a fresco that he was commissioned to paint by the Venetian patrician Vincenzo Pisani: “The Arrival of Henry III at ...
ARTINFO	Old Masters auctions total more than $120 million Chicago Tribune - 27 Jan 2012 at 10:33am The top price in several days of sales at Christie's and Sotheby's was $5.9 million for Giambattista Tiepolo's "The Arrival of Henry VIII at the Villa Contarini" at Christie's, an auction record that was just under the work's high estimate. Results of “Art of France” auction at Christie">Results of “Art of France” auction at Christie'sAMA