Attributed to Giovani Battista Tiepolo

Attributed to GIOVANI BATTISTA TIEPOLO (Venice, 1696 - Madrid, 1770); XVIII century.
"Biblical scene".
Tempera on paper.
It has faults in the frame.
Measurements: 30 x 42 cm; 61 x 74 cm (frame).
The Venetian Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was one of the greatest painters of the Europe of the XVIII century, and the magnificent first master of the Great Manner, an idealized aesthetic derived from classicism. His art exalts the imagination by translating the world of ancient history, myth, scripture and sacred legends into a grandiose and theatrical language, typical of the late Baroque. Tiepolo developed an aesthetic that, starting from the convention of his formative period, evolved brilliantly, becoming increasingly splendid, celebrating the notion of Italian "capriccio" and "fantasia". He was one of the most important Italian fresco painters of his time, as well as an easel painter and engraver, considered the last great painter of the Baroque era and one of the most outstanding figures of the Italian Rococo. Especially decisive was his birth in Venice; his first teacher was Giorgio Lazzarini, who trained him in the study of the Venetian masters of the 16th century. He learned mainly the chromaticism and the violent chiaroscuro effects of Veronese. He began his career working for the Venetian Cornari and Dolfin families, and around 1718-1720 he executed his first important work, the series of canvases on Queen Zenobia for the Ca'Zenobio palace in his native Venice. He was a very active painter not only in Venice, but also in other areas of northern Italy and, in 1761, he was called to Madrid by Charles III to decorate the Throne Room of the new Royal Palace. Always supported by his sons Domenico and Lorenzo, Tiepolo worked in the palace between 1762 and 1766, and finally decided to remain working for the Spanish court, accepting various royal commissions as a chamber painter. Works by this painter are currently preserved in leading art galleries in Europe and America, such as the Prado Museum, the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the Louvre in Paris, the Academy Gallery in Venice, the Gemäldegalerie in Berlin, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Kunsthistorisches in Vienna, the Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum in Madrid, the National Museum in Stockholm, the Pinacoteca de Brera in Milan and the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, among others.