Giambattista Tiepolo, Allegoria NuzialeNuptial allegory room, Ca’ Rezzoni
Giambattista Tiepolo, Allegoria NuzialeNuptial allegory room, Ca’ Rezzonico In the winter of 1757, the wedding between Ludovico Rezzonico and Faustina Savorgnan took place. For the occasion, Giambattista Tiepolo painted the Nuptial allegory on the ceiling of this room in just 12 days. Pairs of satyrs painted by Tiepolo’s son Giandomenico are leaning against a fake ochre and green marble parapet, and beyond this is an architectural structure, ending a balustrade which opens onto the sky. The two spouses are presented to the viewer riding on Apollo’s chariot; they are preceded by the blindfolded Cupid, while allegorical figures surround the main group: Fame, blowing her trumpet; the Graces sitting on a cloud just under the wedding chariot; Truth with the sun in her hand; and Merit, a bearded old man crowned with laurels with St. Mark’s lion at his feet and holding a banner with the coats-of-arms of the wedding couple’s families. Varying the points of view for the arrangement of the figures, the painter creates a dynamic image where even the paradoxical appears concrete. Only Giambattista Tiepolo’s imagination and skill would have been able to imagine the couple’s arrival directly on the chariot of the sun, and to render it credible at the same -- source link
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