# Study for "The Martyrdom of Saint Sebastian" (for the Augustinian monastery at Diessen, Germany), in Baroque and Rococo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this in 1739, aged 43. It is now at the Cleveland Museum of Art.

From the museum's label:

> In 1739 a pair of monumental altarpieces by two Venetian painters (Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and Giambattista Pittoni) were installed in a church in southern Germany, part of a carefully orchestrated decorative program that included architecture, painting, sculpture, and decorative stuccowork.

_Text from the Cleveland Museum of Art._

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## The work

- Date: 1739
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Framed: 67.5 x 45.5 x 6 cm (26 9/16 x 17 15/16 x 2 3/8 in.); Unframed: 51.7 x 31.7 cm (20 3/8 x 12 1/2 in.)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1946.277
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/giovanni-battista-tiepolo), Italian, 1696–1770

Tiepolo was the leading decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, covering ceilings and walls with airy skies, foreshortened figures and luminous colour.

10 works in the collection.

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