# The Triumph of Marius, in The Italian Settecento

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted this in 1729, aged 33. It is now at The Met in New York.

Our note:

> The Roman general Gaius Marius rides in triumph in a chariot, while before him the defeated Numidian king Jugurtha walks in chains, surrounded by soldiers, spoils and onlookers. Tiepolo painted the huge canvas in 1729 as one of ten scenes from Roman history for the great hall of the Palazzo Dolfin in Venice.

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## The work

- Date: 1729
- Medium: Oil on canvas
- Dimensions: Irregular painted surface, 220 x 128 5/8 in. (558.8 x 326.7 cm)
- Type: Paintings
- Courtesy of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 65.183.1
- 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.

## Walk on

- [More by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/giovanni-battista-tiepolo?hang=750) (10 works)
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