Tag: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. 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…
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23 Works, Today, March 4th. is artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo’s day, his story, illustrated with footnotes #063
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (March 5, 1696 — March 27, 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain……
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09 works, Today, September 23nd, is Saint Thecla’s day, her story illustrated #265
Thecla or Tecla was a saint of the early Christian Church, and a reported follower of Paul the Apostle. The earliest record of her life comes from the ancient apocryphal Acts of Paul and Thecla… Please follow link for full post
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03 Works, Today, February 13th, is Saint Catherine de’ Ricci’s Day, With Footnotes – 44
Saint Catherine de’ Ricci, O.S.D. (Caterina de’ Ricci) (23 April 1522 – 2 February 1590), was an Italian Dominican Tertiary sister. She is believed to have had miraculous visions and corporeal encounters with Jesus, both with the infant Jesus and with the adult Jesus. She is said to have spontaneously bled with the wounds of…
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03 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 13th, is Saint Catherine de’ Ricci’s Day, With Footnotes – 44
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. 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…
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01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Today, February 4rd, is Saint Joseph of Leonessa’s Day, With Footnotes – 34
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1696 – 1770. 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…
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Joseph Receiving Pharaoh’s Ring 01 Works, RELIGIOUS ART – Interpretation of the Bible! by the Old Masters, With Footnotes – 96
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, (1696–1770) Joseph Receiving Pharaoh’s Ring Oil on canvas 106 × 179 cm (41.7 × 70.5 in) Dulwich Picture Gallery, Gallery Road, London Since 2016, this painting has been the focus of a major conservation project to restore Tiepolo’s work to its original brilliance. With the help of X-rays, this display explores the changes…
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01 Paintings, Olympian deities, by the Old Masters, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, footnotes # 16
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, VENICE 1696 – 1770 MADRID PORTRAIT OF A LADY AS FLORA Oil on canvas 88.3 x 69.9 cm.; 34 3/4 x 27 1/2 in Private collection This is one of only a very small number of paintings of beautiful women in fancy dress by Tiepolo to have survived. Though they occupy only a…
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