Bacchus and Ariadne
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
c. 1743/1745
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 214 × 232.4 cm (84 1/4 × 91 1/2 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Timken Collection
Accession Number
1960.6.36
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · 1696–1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) stands as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, a Venetian master whose luminous frescoes and dynamic compositions defined the Rococo era's aesthetic zenith. Born in Venice on March 5, 1696, to a modest shipping merchant family, Tiepolo's extraordinary talent transcended his humble origins to establish him as the most sought-after artis...