Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
1742/43
Medium
Black chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
Dimensions
40.5 × 27.2 cm (16 × 10 3/4 in.)
Classification
drawings (visual works)
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
202256
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...