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This first Milanese exhibition dedicated to GianBattista Tiepolo (1696- 1770) great Venetian Rococo Master, celebrates the 250 years that have passed since his death. The commissions made to this artist had enabled him to embark on an international career.
Trained in painting in Venice, his art was consecrated by the courts of the Kings in Germany and Spain.
Around 1715, the Serenissima Republic of Venice was living a period conducive to the development of arts and culture. A contemporary of Canaletto, Tiepolo managed to win the favor of the clergy and the aristocracy with his powerful and theatrical painting. He seduced with his allegorical frescoes imbued with mythology and sacred spirit.
His Venetian beginnings are marked by his works for families of recent nobility such as the Sandi and the Zenobio who loved to decorate their reception rooms with battles and subjects from antiquity. The Dolfin Manin Palace is a good example.
But it is in the Palais Labia where he was able to express all the maturity of his art in his masterpieces of frivolity and light grace that adorn the ballroom.
His arrival in Milan represents the first step towards international notoriety. He painted epic and sacred works in the Basilica of Saint Ambrose.
Then he collaborated with his children, especially with his son GianDomenico, in Germany at the Residence in Wurzburg and in Spain at the Royal Palace in Madrid.
Giambattista Tiepolo
Apollo tra gli dei dell’Olimpo e altre divinità, 1739 ca olio su tela, 99,1 x 63,5 cm
Fort Worth (Texas), Kimbell Art Museum
Crediti fotografici: Fort Worth (Texas), Kimbell Art Museum