Adoration of the Magi by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1753
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Working outside of Wurzburg, Tiepolo painted fot he church of the Benedictines of Schwarzach (both church and convent, built by Neumann, were demolished at the beginning of the nineteenth century) the altarpiece of the Adoration o the Magi, now in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. The Adoration of the Magi is among Tiepoloís finest religious works.
The artist has been able to invest every single figure with almost the same intensity of human love and magic radiance of color, and the group of the Virgin and Child stands out in a blaze of brilliant sunlight.
The same theme reappears in the small picture in the Metropolitan Museum, New York, which has been thought to be the preparatory sketch for the Schwarzach altarpiece, but the many differences in the composition and the more nervous quality in the drawing make one believe that the small picture must have been executed at a slightly later date.
Other paintings/pictures tagged "Adoration of the Magi"
"Adoration of the Magi (detail)" (1504) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
"Adoration of the Magi 1" (1488) Spedale degli Innocenti, Florence |
"Adoration of the Magi (study)" (1481) Galleria degli Uffizi, Florence |
"Adoration of the Magi 1" (1470-1475) National Gallery, London |
Popular Works by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752) • Nativity (1732) • Apollo and Daphne (1744-1745) • Neptune Offering to Venice the Riches of The Sea (1745-1750) • Adoration of the Magi (1753) • The Rape of Europa (1725) • The Theological Virtues (1755) • The Last Supper (1745-1747) • The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew (1722) • Education of the Virgin (1732) • An Allegory with Venus and Time (1754-1758)
Tiepolo Frescoes Wurzburg Residenz
Apollo and the Continents (1752-1753) • Apollo and the Continents (1752-1753)
Tiepolo Frescoes Patriarchal Palace In Udine
The Sacrifice of Isaac (1726-1729) • Jacob's Dream (1726-1729) • The Judgment of Solomon (1726-1729) • Hagar in the Wilderness (1726-1729)
Tiepolo Frescoes Palazzo Labia In Venice
The Banquet of Cleopatra (1745-1750) • Bellerophon on Pegasus (1746-1747)
Tiepolo Frescoes Royal Palace In Madrid
The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy (1762-1766) • The Apotheosis of Spain (1764) • Venus and Vulcan (1762-1766)
Tiepolo Frescoes Villa Valmarana In Vicenza
Rinaldo Abandoning Armida (1757) • Aeneas Conducted to Immortality by Venus (1764-1766)
Tiepolo Frescoes Santa Maria Del Rosario
The Institution of the Rosary (1737-1739) • The Virgin Appearing to St Dominic (1737-1739)