Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (alternatively: Giambattista Tiepolo; Tiepolo, Juan Bautista; Tiepolo, J. B.)
Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:
An Allegorical Subject, Four women are grouped together; one offers the other jewels on a platter while another peers off in the distance., about 1720
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0241A; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
Portion of the Great Ceiling, A chaotic scene of angels and gods inhibit the heavens., 1740
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0196.1; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
Portion of the Great Ceiling, A chaotic scene of angels and gods inhibit the heavens, while Apollo on a chariot, center, rises with the Sun over the earth. Above the chariot, Hermes seems to be calling out., 1740
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0196.2; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Grand Ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici, A chaotic scene of gods abiding in the heavens., 1740
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0195.1; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Grand Ceiling of the Palazzo Clerici, A chaotic scene of gods abiding in the heavens., 1740
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0195.2; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
The Obelisk with the Roman Solider, A obelisk looms in the center, but in the background; a solider, seated, pets a lion with one hand, and holds a sac of coins in the other. A woman stands with one hand on her hip, her expression defiant.
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0253; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
Venus and Vulcan, "Tiepolo's fresco on the vault of the Halberdiers' Room in the Royal Palace depicts Venus charging Vulcan to forge the arms of Aeneas, a topic taken from Virgil's Aeneid and chosen for the military function of the room. The stucco decoration was executed by Bartolomeo Rusca.", 1762-1766
Vanderbilt photo identifier: SC.MSS.088.TIEP.0254; Public Notes: This is a basic record created to enable public access to scanned images. Full research on this image is pending. For assistance, please e-mail us at specialcollections@vanderbilt.edu
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