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Ceiling decoration sketch by Gianbattista Tiepolo showing the Roman gods Diana and Apollo sitting on clouds in the sky surrounded by their winged attendants.
Ceiling decoration sketch by Gianbattista Tiepolo showing the Roman gods Diana and Apollo sitting on clouds in the sky surrounded by their winged attendants.
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Diana, Apollo and Nymphs

by Giambattista Tiepolo

Date: c. 1750

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Item details

  • Acquisition

    Bourgeois Bequest, 1811

  • Accession number

    DPG186

  • Artist

    Giambattista Tiepolo

  • Date

    c. 1750

  • Dimensions

    66.3 x 33 cm

  • Materials

    Oil on canvas

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696-1770) depicts Diana, the ancient Greek goddess of the hunt and the moon, alongside her brother, Apollo, the god of the sun. Both figures are identifiable through the symbols and objects with which Tiepolo has depicted them. Diana is surrounded by deer and hunting dogs and just above her head is a small crescent moon on its side. Apollo holds a stringed musical instrument called a lyre.  

This painting is a modello (a painted sketch), for a ceiling fresco at the Villa Cornaro in Merlengo, a village in the Veneto region of northern Italy. This modello would have been shown to the patron, a member of the Cornaro family, before Tiepolo started work on the ceiling.   

Ceiling decoration sketch by Gianbattista Tiepolo showing the Roman gods Diana and Apollo sitting on clouds in the sky surrounded by their winged attendants.

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