{"product_id":"giovanni-battista-tiepolo-the-banquet-of-cleopatra-fine-art-print","title":"Giovanni Battista Tiepolo — The Banquet of Cleopatra | Fine Art Print","description":"\u003cp\u003eBeneath a tall arch with a view of sky and birds, a woman in a grey-lilac gown and white ruff sits at a white-clothed table, one hand raised. Across from her sit a man in a fur-trimmed coat and a helmeted man with a white plume in a red cloak. A turbaned figure in gold and blue stands at left, attendants carry trays at right, and two dogs and a chequered floor fill the foreground.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Musée Cognacq-Jay reads this canvas as a polished preparatory version of a larger painting of the same banquet, finished carefully enough to be more than a sketch, and dates it to 1742-1743. The episode is the one told by Pliny and Plutarch, in which Cleopatra wagers that her feast will be the costliest ever given and dissolves a priceless pearl in vinegar.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe original: oil on canvas, 1742; Musée Cognacq-Jay, Paris.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGiovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was the last of the great Venetian decorators and the most inventive fresco painter of the eighteenth century. He filled ceilings in Venice, Würzburg and Madrid with pale, weightless skies and figures seen from below, and drew constantly — heads of philosophers and orientals, studied in chalk and oil, that he reused across his commissions. He died in Madrid in the service of Charles III. 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