Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1758 - Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken - fine art print

Original artwork description by The Metropolitan Museum of Art (© Copyright - by The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

The present preliminary sketch is for one of Tiepolo's greatest religious works, the altarpiece in the apse of the cathedral at Este, near Padua. Commissioned in 1758 and installed on Christmas Day, 1759, the picture commemorates the plague of 1630 with the citizens of Este praying for the intercession of Saint Thecla. The first-century saint is shown among the victims; the town is depicted in the background.

What you should know this artwork created by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Saint Thecla Praying for the Plague-Stricken was painted by the artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in 1758. The piece of art was painted with the size: 32 x 17 5/8 in (81,3 x 44,8 cm) and was made on the medium oil on canvas. Furthermore, this artwork belongs to the The Metropolitan Museum of Art's digital collection in New York City, New York, United States of America. We are pleased to state that this public domain artwork is provided with courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Rogers Fund, 1937. Also, the artwork has the following creditline: Rogers Fund, 1937. Besides this, the alignment of the digital reproduction is in portrait format and has a ratio of 9 : 16, which implies that the length is 45% shorter than the width. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was a male painter, printmaker of Italian nationality, whose art style can be classified as Rococo. The Italian painter lived for a total of 74 years and was born in the year 1696 in Venice, Venezia province, Veneto, Italy and passed away in the year 1770.

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