# Allegory of the Planets and Continents, in 18th-century Italy

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this in 1752, aged 56. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> This is Tiepolo’s oil sketch for the vast ceiling fresco over the staircase of the Residenz in Würzburg, made in 1752 for his patron, the prince-bishop Carl Philipp von Greiffenklau.

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## The work

- Date: 1752
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: 73 x 54 7/8 in. (185.4 x 139.4 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1977.1.3
- 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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