- Title:
- Four Decorative Scenes
- Object name(s):
- Picture; Italian
- Brief description:
- These four narrow canvases were painted during the 1740s by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo to decorate a room on the second floor of the Palazzo Cornaro on the Campo San Polo, Venice. Tiepolo was enjoying growing fame across Italy at this time; receiving important commissions for large ceiling paintings and wall decorations.The paintings formed part of a complex decorative scheme, with which a ceiling painting (now in Canberra) and four allegorical figures (now divided between New York and Amsterdam), have been associated. Tiepolo’s four paintings in the National Gallery -- Rinaldo turning in Shame from the Magic Shield, Seated Man, Woman with Jar and Boy, Two Standing Figures and Two Men seated under a Tree -- are inspired by Torquato Tasso’s popular sixteenth-century poem Jerusalem Delivered. Set during the First Crusade, a Christian military campaign to recapture Jerusalem from Islamic rule, the poem tells of the ill-fated love between the Saracen sorceress Armida and Rinaldo, a Christian knight. Tiepolo’s pale pastel tones and lively brushwork in these scenes create a dazzling atmosphere that evokes the poem's setting.
- Collection:
- National Gallery
- Current location:
- Not on display
- Object name:
- Picture; Italian (Venetian)
- Object production date:
- Date - period:
- 1725-49
- Object production date:
- about 1740-6
- Date - earliest / single:
- 1740
- Date - latest:
- 1746
- Object production person:
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Person's birth date:
- 1696
- Person's death date:
- 1770
- Other number:
- GROUP37
- Other number type:
- object number
- Other number:
- 0HYT-0001-0000-0000
- Other number type:
- PID
- Other number:
- NG6302-NG6305
- Other number type:
- display number
- Other number:
- 000-06MH-0000
- Other number type:
- PID (NG alternative)
- Other number:
- NG6302-NG6305
- Other number type:
- Display Number
- Other number:
- group137
- Other number type:
- sort number
- Responsible department/section:
- Main Collection
- Right note:
- To encourage the use and reuse of the National Gallery's collection data, they are released under the following dedications and licences: Structured data (as opposed to narrative texts) are released under a Creative Commons Zero dedication (CC0): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/. Descriptions, notes and all other narrative text content are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 licence (CC BY): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Images are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 licence (CC BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.
- Style:
- baroque
- Style:
- rococo
Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8cfb914d-ac29-34b4-846a-1e122eef3429
Use licence for this record: CC BY
Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/8cfb914d-ac29-34b4-846a-1e122eef3429, National Gallery, CC BY
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