Who painted “The Banquet of Cleopatra”?

“The Banquet of Cleopatra” was painted by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo in 1743. Where to see it: National Gallery of Victoria.

Rococo

What to look for

Rococo: Baroque before it is darker, heavier and more serious; Neoclassicism after it is sober, linear and moral.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. Wikipedia

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“Allegory of the Planets and Continents”, 1752
“The Rape of Europa”, 1725
“The Immaculate Conception”, 1767
“Death of Consul L. J. Brutus in a duel with Aruns”, 1727
“Ceiling fresco in the staircase of the Würzburg Residence”, 1752
“Discovery of the True Cross”, 1743
“Apollo and Daphne”, 1743
“The Death of Hyacinth”, 1753