- 72
喬瓦尼‧多梅尼科‧蒂耶波洛
描述
- Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
- 《道德盛榮》
- 油彩畫布
- 53.3 x 40 cm
來源
From whom acquired by J.Pierpont Morgan, 1906;
By whom given to The Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1907 (Inv. no. 07.225.297).
展覽
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum, 1 May - 2 September 1974 (no catalogue);
Queens, NY, The Queens Museum, Flights of Fantasy, 14 August - 7 November 1982, cat. no. 50;
New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Domenico Tiepolo: Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 23 January - 27 April 1997 (no catalogue).
出版
M. Goering in Allgemeines Lexikon der bildenden Künstler, 33, Leipzig 1939, p. 160 (listed among works by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo; titled "Adel u. Weisheit" [Nobility and Wisdom]);
H. B. Wehle, The Metropolitan Museum of Art: A Catalogue of Italian, Spanish, and Byzantine Paintings, New York 1940, pp. 286–87, reproduced (as Workshop of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, titled "Virtue and Wisdom");
A. Morassi, A Complete Catalogue of the Paintings of G. B. Tiepolo, London 1962, p. 33 (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, titled "Virtue and Wisdom");
B. B. Fredericksen and F. Zeri, Census of Pre-Nineteenth-Century Italian Paintings in North American Public Collections, Cambridge 1972, pp. 198, 543, 605 (where identified as an unknown allegory);
F. Zeri with E. E. Gardner, Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School, New York 1973, pp. 66–67, reproduced plate 81, (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo, titled "Virtue and Wisdom");
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1980, vol. I, p. 185, reproduced vol. II, p. 142 (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo);
K. Baetjer, European Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art by artists born before 1865, A Summary Catalogue, New York 1995, p. 97, reproduced (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo);
L. Wolk-Simon, "Domenico Tiepolo: Drawings, Prints, and Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin 54 (Winter 1996/97), pp. 38, 40-41, reproduced in color fig. 59 (as Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo);
G. Pavanello, “Affreschi veneziani del tardo Settecento,” in Arte Veneta, vol. 63, 2006, p. 123, reproduced p. 126.
Condition
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拍品資料及來源
The composition of the fresco closely follows that of the modello. The figure of Virtue is seen holding a lance and wreath, her breast emblazoned with a sun. Above and to the right is Nobility (sometimes identified as Wisdom) holding a statuette of Minerva, while at the bottom can be seen the figure of Ignorance, shielding her eyes from a lighted torch held by a putto, with the male figure of Fortitude to her right. In the fresco, the drapery and black cloud under the figure of Ignorance spill out over the framework of the fresco, creating a bravura trompe l'oeil effect. The design shows the artist’s close adherence to the style and subject matter of his father, Giovanni Battista, to whom this oil sketch has sometimes been attributed in the past. Giovanni Battista produced a number of variations on the same theme in the 1740s, such as in his depiction of Fortitude and Wisdom for the ceiling of the Palazzo Manin, Venice (now in the Contini-Bonacossi Collection, Florence). Giovanni Domenico later (circa 1749-50) made an etching after that composition by his father, renaming it Triumph of Virtue and Nobility.
We are grateful to Dott. Lino Moretti for informing us that this sketch is the modello for the Palazzo Vignola-Balbi fresco and for bringing to our attention the article by Giuseppe Pavanello.
1. See G. Pavanello, op.cit., p. 123.