A major exhibition on Giambattista Tiepolo is coming to Milan in 2020.

Anticipations for 2020: in Milan, the Gallerie d’Italia in Piazza Scala is organizing a major exhibition on Giambattista Tiepolo (Venice, 1696 - Madrid, 1770) to celebrate the 250th anniversary of his death. The exhibition, curated by Fernando Mazzocca and Alessandro Morandotti, will be an opportunity to reconstruct the story of the great Venetian artist and to delve into his relationship with the city of Milan, which was the initial stage of the painter’s affemination outside Venice.

Tiepolo’s fame, linked in particular to his works with historical and mythological subjects, managed to spread throughout Europe, and the artist worked at the courts of Dresden, Würzburg and finally Madrid, where he ended his artistic parabola and where Tiepolo died in 1770. The exhibition (whose provisional title is Giambattista Tiepolo (1696 - 1770). Venice, Milan, Dresden, Madrid. From the formative years to international affirmation) will have three focuses on the cities of Tiepolo’s international affirmation: Milan, Dresden and Madrid. But there will also be space for Venice at the start of the exhibition. The exhibition will open on October 29, 2020, and end on March 21, 2021.

Image: Giambattista Tiepolo, Hunter on Horseback (oil on canvas, 262 x 110 cm; Milan, Fondazione Cariplo)

A major exhibition on Giambattista Tiepolo is coming to Milan in 2020.

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