The triumph of Hercules

Giandomenico Tiepolo
Italy
1727 – 1804

The triumph of Hercules
c 1759; published 1775
etching on paper
Place made
Venice, Italy
Medium
etching on paper
Dimensions
68.8 x 50.8 cm (plate)
Credit line
South Australian Government Grant 1970
Accession number
707G28
Signature and date
Signed in plate bot.c. "Joannes Dominicus Tiepolo/ invenit pinxit, et delineavit, inc.". Not dated.
Catalogue raisonne
De Vesme 101 iii/iii; Rizzi (1971) 147 iii/iii
Media category
Print
Collection area
European prints

  • WALL LABEL: A Beautiful Line: Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi, 2012

     

    Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was a more experienced printmaker than his father, Giambattista. The majority of his prints were reproductions of his father’s paintings, which brilliantly translate the dazzling quality of his painting into light-filled etchings.

     

    This etching is based on a ceiling painting by Domenico, which is thought to have been created for the winter palace of Czarina Elizabeth Petrova in St Petersburg, Russia, in 1759. Hercules is depicted triumphantly ascending Olympus on a chariot drawn by centaurs. Domenico built up the image through numerous quivering parallel lines, which create a sense of movement and light.  

     

    Maria Zagala, Associate Curator of Prints, Drawings & Photographs

  • Italian Old Master Prints from the Collection of the Art Gallery of South Australia

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  • Five Centuries of Genius: European Master Printmaking

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  • A beautiful line. Italian prints from Mantegna to Piranesi

    Art Gallery of South Australia, 20 August 2010 – 31 October 2010
  • [Book] P & D Colnaghi. Etchings and Drawings by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and other Italian Artists of the Eighteenth Century.
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