TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista
(b. 1696, Venezia, d. 1770, Madrid)

Glory among the Cardinal Virtues (detail)

1734
Fresco
Villa Loschi Zileri dal Verme, Biron di Monteviale

The detail shows the angel of Fame, sounding a trumpet and Prudence, with a serpent wound around her arm and reflecting upon her image in a mirror held up by a putto. To the right, Evil falls from the sky - a horrible old woman terrified by the appearance of Glory.