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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Saint Roch, Google Art Project, San Rocco, Harvard Art Museum, Italian Paintings, Ancient Sculpture, European Paintings, San Sebastian

Tiepolo was one of the most renowned artists in eighteenth-century Venice. Influenced by Venetian Renaissance painters such as Tintoretto and Veronese, he composed numerous religious and mythological scenes, achieving notoriety for his paintings’ vivid color and theatrical effects. In this small canvas, made for private devotion, he depicts Saint Roch, the medieval French nobleman who, according to hagiographic accounts, miraculously healed plague victims while a mendicant pilgrim in Italy…

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