TIEPOLO, Giovanni Domenico
(b. 1727, Venezia, d. 1804, Venezia)

Ceiling tondo

1791
Detached fresco
Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice

This monochrome ceiling tondo was located in the Room of the Centaurs of the family villa at Zianigo. This puzzling scene depicts a seated man in antique dress with a lyre beside him. On the book beneath his left elbow is the painter's monogram ("DT") and the date 1791.