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Metaphysics






Date : approx. between 1740 and 1749

Material : Fresco moved on canvas
Acquisition : Bequest of Grace Rainey Rogers (1943)
Metropolitan Museum of Art

Center
First Floor - Section 1
Item 10 on 8
Italian Painting
Fresco

Area related
Vicenza (Italy)
Site related :



Description   

This fresco and the others one in this gallery date from 1740s and were removed about 1900 from a long room in the Palazzo Valle-Marchesini-Sala in Vicenza. The circular freco decorated the ceiling and it meant to simulate a sculpted relief. The standing allegorical figures simulate statues on pedestals and were designed by Tiepolo and painted in part by him and in part by his workshop. The feigned architecture was painted by a scenographic specialist, Girolamo Mengozzi, who frequently collabored with Tiepolo on decorative fresco cycles.
Item(s) related   
Metropolitan Museum of Art :
Tiepolo
Geometry
Allégorie
Girolamo Mengozzi et Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
near 1740
Arithmetic
Allégorie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo et Girolamo Mengozzi
near 1740
Grammar
Allégorie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo et Girolamo Mengozzi
approx. from 1740 to 1749
Tiepolo
A Female Allegorical Figure
Allégorie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
approx. from 1740 to 1750
A Female Allegorical Figure
Allégorie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
approx. from 1740 to 1750
Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Allégorie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
1752

National Museum of Western Art (NMWA) - Tokyo :
18th Century Italian, French and English Paintings
The Apotheosis of Admiral Vettor Pisani
Allégorie
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
near 1743
Metaphysics
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Girolamo Mengozzi (Colonna)
Métaphysique