Giambattista Tiepolo

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Painting of Abraham leading Isaac up a mountain
In Pursuit of Quality: 25 Years of Collecting Old Masters, Paintings from The Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth
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On the occasion of the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, The Frick Collection presented an unprecedented loan exhibition of seventeen pictures, spanning the period from the Renaissance to the late eighteenth century.

Oil on Canvas, Perseus and Andromeda
Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
Tiepolo, Perseus and Andromeda
Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
video still of Xavier Salomon and oil paintings
Cocktails with a Curator: Tiepolo's "Perseus and Andromeda"

In this week’s episode of Cocktails with a Curator, Deputy Director and Peter Jay Sharp Chief Curator Xavier F. Salomon considers the fragility of art in the context of the Frick’s Perseus and Andromeda by Giambattista Tiepolo. This depiction of the Greek demigod saving Andromeda from a sea-monster is a preparatory sketch for a series of ceiling frescoes at Palazzo Archinto in Milan that were destroyed during an Allied bombing in 1943.

William Barcham giving lecture at The Frick Collection
William Barcham: "Tiepolo's Milanese Frescoes"

William Barcham, Professor Emeritus, Fashion Institute of Technology

Born in 1696, Giambattista Tiepolo was arguably, by the mid-eighteenth century, Europe’s greatest artist. His proving ground as a painter of international renown took place not in his native Venice, but in Milan, then part of the Habsburg Empire. This lecture looks at three grand fresco cycles executed by Tiepolo between 1730 and 1740 for noble Milanese families serving the Austrian throne, as well as his frescoed chapel in the church of St. Ambrose, dedicated to the patron saint of Milan.

video still of Xavier Salomon lecturing
Xavier F. Salomon: "The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto”
The frescoed ceilings commissioned by Count Carlo Archinto for his palace in Milan were among the masterpieces of Giambattista Tiepolo’s early career and are the subject of the current special exhibition. This lecture examines the history of the frescoes within the broader context of the Archinto family and their palace.
video still of slide of painting of flying horse and figures in clouds, with title that reads Tiepolo in Milan:The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto
Xavier F. Salomon, Chief Curator at The Frick Collection, provides an introduction to the exhibition Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto, on view at The Frick Collection from April 16, 2019, through July 14, 2019.