I wasn’t planning to see so much work by Tiepolo, but, by focussing on the eighteenth-century parts of Venice, his work is wonderfully dominant, most of all in the Ca’ Rezzonico, where, in 1758, he painted a ceiling in ten days to celebrate the wedding of Ludovico Rezzonico, showing the bride and groom travelling in Apollo’s chariot:-
Earlier in the morning I had admired his ceiling painting in the Gesuati:-
And his Madonna and Child with Saints (1748) in the aisle:-
| Charles | Saumarez | Smith | 
Superb.
I rather like Pittoni too.
Divine sprezzatura. I adore GBT. Quite right to concentrate on him rather than the biennale
Oops, just seen your Biennale post.
Yes, but I was easily distracted. Charles