Author Description

Giambattista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696 - Madrid, 1770) was an influential and charismatic personality of the grand stage of the 18th century visual arts and one of the most important painters of Late Baroque. His oeuvre mostly encompasses wall paintings in the aristocratic palaces and churches of Northern Italy, while his work for the courts in Germany and Spain speak to his international fame. He influenced both his contemporaries and future generations, since his protean activity 'connected the opulence of Baroque, the elegance of the Rococo, and the coldness of the slowly advancing Neoclassicism', as Luc Menase so vividly put it. Exhibition: Narodna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia (01.06.-03.09.2017).