Queen Zenobia Addressing Her Soldiers
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1725/1730
Medium
oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 261.4 x 365.8 cm (102 15/16 x 144 in.) framed: 292.1 x 397 x 8.5 cm (115 x 156 5/16 x 3 3/8 in.)
Classification
Painting
Department
CIS-B
Museum
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Credit
Samuel H. Kress Collection
Accession Number
1961.9.42
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...