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Summary

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: Allegory of the Immaculate Conception

Artist



Alternative names	Gianbattista, Giambattista Tiepolo
Description	Italian painter and engraver
Date of birth/death	5 March 1696	27 March 1770
Location of birth/death	Venice	Madrid
Work location	Venice; Milan; Würzburg; Bergamo; Udine; Verona; Vicenza; Madrid
Authority file	: Q186202 VIAF: 71399712 ISNI: 0000000121386633 ULAN: 500018523 LCCN: n80045041 NLA: 35550021 WorldCat

Title

Allegory of the Immaculate Conception

Object type

painting

Genre

allegory

Description

Immaculate Conception of Mary

Date

circa 1769

Medium

oil on paper mounted on canvas

Dimensions

height: 58.7 cm (23.1 in)

; width: 45 cm (17.7 in)

Collection

National Gallery of Ireland

	Native name	English: National Gallery of Ireland Gaeilge: Gailearaí Náisiúnta na hÉireann
	Location	Dublin, Ireland
	Coordinates	53° 20′ 27.28″ N, 6° 15′ 09.18″ W
	Established	1854
	Website	www.nationalgallery.ie
	Authority file	: Q2018379 VIAF: 146268422 ISNI: 0000000406165682 ULAN: 500307245 LCCN: n50027610 NLA: 35674603 WorldCat

Accession number

NGI.353 (National Gallery of Ireland)

Object history

Probably brought back from Madrid to Venice by Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo after his father's death in 1770
Appeared on Venetian market after his own death in 1804
Purchased by Duke of Portland in Venice c. 1870-1890
Purchased, Christie's, London, 13 July 1891, G.A.F. Cavendish Bentick sale, lot 771

Credit line

Purchased, 1891

Notes

English: Considered the most iconographically complex of Tiepolo's portrayals of the Immaculate Conception. Note the triangular halo signifying the Trinity.

References

Christiansen, Keith, ed. Giambattista Tiepolo, 1696–1770. Exhibition catalogue - No. 40b p 247 n. 11. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1996.

Source/Photographer

http://onlinecollection.nationalgallery.ie/objects/7668/allegory-of-the-immaculate-conception

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