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  1. Giambattista Tiepolo
    An Allegory with Venus and Time
    1754-58
    Oil on canvas, 292 x 190 cm
    National Gallery, London

    One of my favourite pictures from London's National Gallery. I confess I often hold this picture in my mind's eye as a form of escapism -- an escape from strip malls, bloated SUVs, megachurches with fundamentalist PowerPoints punctuated by bad rock and extempore prayer, cargo pants,
    presidential make up, the Hobby Lobby...

    #Tiepolo #GiambattistaTiepolo #NtationalGallery #VenetianArt #Painting #LateBaroque #Rococo #Art #Allegory #Venus #Escapism

  2. Giambattista Tiepolo
    Neptune Offering Gifts to Venice
    1740s
    Oil on canvas, 135 x 275 cm
    Palazzo Ducale, Venice

    This image has remained in my mind's eye for years. I was going to write that it was the visual equivalent of an earworm, but that wouldn't be quite right, as that term suggests something annoying of which one would be glad to be rid.

    #Tiepolo #Venice #Painting #LateBaroque #Art