Giambattista Tiepolo
Wurzburg ceiling — the last great fresco painter
The last of the great Venetian painters and the supreme ceiling decorator. His frescoes at the Wurzburg Residenz — the largest ceiling painting in the world — are a final, luminous explosion of Baroque illusionism before Neoclassicism swept it away.
Key works
- Wurzburg Residenz ceiling1752-1753— The largest ceiling fresco in the worldWurzburg Residenz, Wurzburg
- Palazzo Labia frescoes~1747— Cleopatra's banquet — Venetian splendorPalazzo Labia, Venice