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Allegory of the Power of Eloquence, c.1725 (oil on canvas)

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COU5892309
Image title
Allegory of the Power of Eloquence, c.1725 (oil on canvas)
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Artist
Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) (1696-1770) / Italian
Location
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Medium
oil on canvas
Date
c. 1725 AD (C18th AD)
Dimensions
49.2x70.8 cms
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This oil sketch is Tiepolo’s earliest known composition for a ceiling decoration for Palazzo Sandi in Venice. The gods Minerva and Mercury (centre) preside over scenes of eloquence. Amphion builds Thebes with music (below), Orpheus rescues Eurydice from Hell (left), Hercules binds his listeners with chains (above), and Bellepheron attacks the Chimera (right). Tiepolo drew on the ideas of the Italian theorist Vico about history and law. Appropriately, his patron was a lawyer.

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