Monument to the Glory of Heroes

c. 1765/1770

Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo

Artist, Venetian, 1736 - 1776

Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching

  • Credit Line

    Ailsa Mellon Bruce Fund

  • Dimensions

    plate: 66.5 x 49.9 cm (26 3/16 x 19 5/8 in.)
    sheet: 68.6 x 51.7 cm (27 x 20 3/8 in.)

  • Accession

    1984.83.1

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rizzi 1971, no. 228, State iii/iii

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Artwork history & notes

Exhibition History

1994

  • The Glory of Venice: Art in the Eighteenth Century, Royal Academy of Arts, London, and National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1994, 344, 346, 510, no. 240 (repro. p. 346)(entry by Giorgio Marini).

Bibliography

1906

  • Vesme, Alexandre de (Baudi di Vesme, Alessandro). Le peintre-graveur italien; ouvrage faisant suite au peintre-graveur de Bartsch. Milan: Ulrico Hoepli, 1906.

1971

  • Rizzi, Aldo. The Etchings of the Tiepolos. Complete edition. London: Phaidon, 1971.

1994

  • The Glory of Venice. Exh. cat. Royal Academy of Arts, London; National Gallery of Art, Washington; Museo del Settecento Veneziano - Ca'Rezzonico, Venice; Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, 1994-1995: no. 240.

Inscriptions

lower center in plate: Ioannes Batta Tiepolo inv. et pinx. / Laurentius Tiepolo filius del. et inc.; upper left in plate: 43

Wikidata ID

Q74066141

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