Sketch for "The Glory of Saint Dominic"

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Sketch for "The Glory of Saint Dominic"

1738-1739

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696–1770)

This preparatory sketch, showing the founder of the Dominican order being carried to heaven, is for one section of a vast ceiling fresco in the church of the Gesuati, which the Dominicans rebuilt starting in 1726. Tiepolo received the commission for the ceiling early in 1737 and had completed the project by May of the following year.

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Object Details

Title:

Sketch for "The Glory of Saint Dominic"

Date:

1738-1739

Artist:

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian (active Venice, Udine, Würzburg, and Madrid) 1696–1770)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

15 1/8 x 20 9/16 inches (38.4 x 52.2 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

John G. Johnson Collection, 1917

Accession Number:

Cat. 286

Geography:

Made in Venice, Italy, Europe

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