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Apotheosis of a Venetian hero
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1696-1770
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Width: 24.5 cm
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This drawing is probably a preliminary study for a ceiling at Palazzo Porto in Vicenza, designed by Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio (1508–1580) for the Porto family. The man seated at the centre may be Orazio, the head of the Porto family in Tiepolo’s lifetime. The composition draws on the tradition of representing the glorification of historical and mythological figures to a divine status. The painterly use of wash is characteristic of Tiepolo’s late style. Underlying chalk lines reveal the artist’s first thoughts for the composition.
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Exhibition History
The Four Elements, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 1996
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 16/10/1991-19/01/1992 ...More
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, The Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982-30/01/1983 ...Less
Literature
no. 157
pl. CXVII
Loggia del Lionello, Udine, 1965, Disegni del Tiepolo, 1965
p. 106 under no. 92
Drawings from Stockholm: a loan exhibition from the Nationalmuseum, Pierpont Morgan Library, New York; Museum of Fine Art, Boston; Art Institute of Chicago, 1969
p. 27 under no. 42 ...More
Tiepolo: a bicentenary exhibition, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, 1970, 1970
under no. 77
Seilern, Count Antoine, Corrigenda and Addenda to the Catalogue of paintings and drawings at 56 Princes Gate, London, London 1971
no. 157
Bjurström, Per, Disegni veneti del Museo di Stoccolma, Vicenza 1974
no. 111
Bjurström, Per, Drawings in Swedish public collections, III: Italian drawings : Venice, Brescia, Parma, Milan, Genoa, Stockholm 1979
under no. 224
ill.
Master Drawings from the Courtauld Collections, Courtauld Institute Galleries, London, 1991
cat. no. 67
pp. 142, 193
ill. on p. 143
Drawings by Tiepolo and Guardi in the Princes Gate Collection, Courtauld Gallery, London, 31/07/1982- 30/01/1983, cat. by Helen Braham
no. 20
Tiepolo and his circle: drawings in American collections, Harvard University Art Museum; Pierpont Morgan Library, New York, 1996-1997, 1996
p. 174 under no. 65 ...Less
Inscriptions
Inscription: Verso: lower left corner, graphite: “18703.”; lower right edge, graphite: “Tiepolo”.
Collector's mark: none.
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