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Date : approx. between 1730 and 1735
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Lent by the Huntington Library, Art Collection, and Botanical Gardens
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European Painting
Painting
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Italy
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Tiepolo painted at least twenty-one versions of the subject of Saint Rocco in the early 1730s, all for members of a religious society at the Church of San Rocco in Venice. As this example and the nearby version show, Tiepolo brought an astonishing variety to these works, presenting the saint in a novel way each time. The artist clearly used the same model, but altered the setting as well as the figure's age, social class, and pose, establishing a new emotional tone with each picture.
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