Armida Encounters the Sleeping Rinaldo
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
c. 1775
Medium
Etching in black on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
Image: 25.7 × 29.1 cm (10 1/8 × 11 1/2 in.); Sheet, trimmed within platemark: 26.7 × 29.9 cm (10 9/16 × 11 13/16 in.)
Classification
etching
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
233513
About the Artist
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo · 1727–1804
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (1727-1804) was a Venetian painter, printmaker, and draftsman whose career spanned the twilight of the Rococo era. Born on August 30, 1727, in Venice as the eldest son of the celebrated Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, he worked both in his father's shadow and as a significant independent artist who developed a distinctly earthbound and humanistic vision. Domenico's importance...