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

The Greek Fleet in Aulis

1757
Fresco
Villa Valmarana ai Nani, Vicenza

This scene is on the left wall of the vestibule, opposite the Sacrifice of Iphigenia. in the space around the doors. Among the columns painted by Mengozzi Colonna, Greek soldiers appear, ready to depart, behind them one can glimpse the ships, their sails already swollen with winds.




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