Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
by Allegory of the Planets
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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Allegory of the Planets
Medium
Photograph - Oil On Canvas
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Allegory of the Planets 1752 by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
This picture, Tiepolo's largest and most dazzling oil sketch, represents Apollo about to embark on his daily course across the sky. Deities around the sun god symbolize the planets, and allegorical figures on the cornice represent the four continents. Tiepolo presented this preliminary sketch to Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau, the prince-bishop of Wurzburg, on April 20, 1752, as his proposal for the decoration of the vast staircase ceiling of the Residenz, often considered the artist's greatest achievement.
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