Holy Family with St. John and Two Angels
Medium
Pen and brown ink and brush and brown ink wash on ivory laid paper
Dimensions
25.8 × 20 cm (10 3/16 × 7 7/8 in.)
Classification
drawing
Department
Prints and Drawings
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Accession Number
262599
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...