Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1740 - Alexander the Great and Campaspe in the Studio of Apelles - fine art print

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A boyish artist gazes longingly at the regal woman whose portrait he is painting. The young artist is Alexander the Great's court painter, Apelles, whom ancient writers considered the greatest artist of their time. According to Pliny's Natural History of 77 A.D., Alexander commissioned Apelles to paint a portrait of his favorite concubine, Campaspe. The story illustrates art's transformative powers: Apelles fell in love with his sitter as he captured her beauty on canvas. Alexander so esteemed his painter that he presented Campaspe to Apelles as a reward for the portrait.

The tale of Alexander and Apelles, a favorite of Renaissance and Baroque painters, celebrates the power and nobility of painting. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this episode at least three times. For this, the third rendering, he adopted a classicizing style in which antique architectural elements and relief sculptures evoke a sumptuous palace setting. The background provides a focal area for the gaze of Alexander the Great, who appears handsome and self-confident, yet unaware of the charged glances shared by Apelles and Campaspe.

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This 18th century piece of art was made by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in 1740. Today, the artpiece forms part of the The J. Paul Getty Museum's digital collection in Los Angeles, California, United States of America. We are pleased to mention that this work of art, which is part of the public domain is being provided with courtesy of The J. Paul Getty Museum.Moreover, the work of art has the creditline: . The alignment of the digital reproduction is landscape with an aspect ratio of 4 : 3, which means that the length is 33% longer than the width. The painter, printmaker Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was a European artist from Italy, whose art style can be classified as Rococo. The artist was born in the year 1696 in Venice, Venezia province, Veneto, Italy and deceased at the age of 74 in 1770 in Madrid, Madrid province, Comunidad de Madrid, Spain.

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