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Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies
Scienze della comunicazione Università degli Studi di TeramoPhD Program in Historical studies

Giambattista Tiepolo

Apollo e Dafne - TiepoloGiambattista Tiepolo (1696-1770) was one of the greatest painters of eighteenth-century Venice. The father of the artists Giandomenico and Lorenzo Tiepolo, he worked mainly in Venice and the northeastern Italy, with a significant three-year interval in Würzburg at the service of the Prince-Bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau. He then spent the last years of his life, starting from 1762, in Madrid, at the court of King Charles III of Bourbon. To recall some examples of his boundless artistic production, we mention the cycle in the archbishop’s palace of Udine, with the Biblical Stories in the gallery on the second floor and the Fall of the Rebel Angels on the ceiling of the staircase; the frescoes of the Würzburg Residence and of Villa Valmarana at Vicenza; the frescoes in the Royal Palace of Madrid.