The Glorification of the Barbaro Family
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
ca. 1750
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Irregular oval, 96 x 183 3/4 in. (243.8 x 466.7 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Anonymous Gift, in memory of Oliver H. Payne, 1923
Accession Number
23.128
Tags
MenWomenPuttiSky
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...