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Saint John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness
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Saint John the Baptist preaching in the wilderness

Medium

Etching

Dimensions

Sheet: 9 1/8 in. × 11 in. (23.2 × 27.9 cm)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Gift of Fern and Lewis Lowenfels, 2022

Classification

Prints

Department

Drawings and Prints

About Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696–1770Republic of Venice

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 artist among European nobility and ecclesiastical patrons.