Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian Artist · 1696–1770
8 works on LinkedCulture
Born into a wealthy and noble family in Venice, Giambattista Tiepolo was recognized by contemporaries throughout Europe as the greatest painter of large-scale decorative frescoes in the 1700s. He was admired for having brought fresco painting to new heights of technical virtuosity, illumination, and dramatic effect. Tiepolo possessed an imagination characterized by one of his contemporaries as "al
Works
View as IIIF ↗Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles
Getty Museum · about 1740
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Caricature of a Man Wearing an Overcoat
Getty Museum · about 1753–1762
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Flight into Egypt (recto); Various Studies (verso)
Getty Museum · 1725–1735
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Head of a Man Looking Up
Getty Museum · about 1750–1760
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Punchinellos Approaching a Woman
Getty Museum · late 1730s
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The Holy Family with Angels before an Arch
Getty Museum · second half of 1750s
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The Miracle of the Holy House of Loreto
Getty Museum · 1743
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View of a Villa
Getty Museum · 1757–1759
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