The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family. #1
by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Title
The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family. #1
Artist
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Medium
Painting - Oil On Canvas
Description
The Glorification of the Giustiniani Family. Artist: Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1727-1804 Venice). Dimensions: 46 x 32 1/2 in. (116.8 x 82.6 cm). Date: 1783.
The present model is for a ceiling of the ducal palace in Genoa (destroyed). At the top of the staircase Jacopo Giustiniani kneels before a personification of the Ligurian Republic. A female in the left corner represents the island of Chios; she holds a scroll with the initials V.I. and 1562, in reference to a sixteenth-century governor of the island, Vincenzo Giustiniani. Figures in oriental dress at right allude to the commercial enterprises of the Giustiniani in Asia Minor. Museum: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA.
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