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

Nativity

1732
Oil on canvas
Basilica di San Marco, Venice

This is one of Tiepolo's most interesting and least known religious works. Set in a room (the Sacristy of the Canonici) that is rarely visited, in the midst of golden mosaics, it offers the excitement of a true discovery.




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