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TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista: The Virgin with Six Saints

🖼 The Virgin with Six Saints, 1737-40
Oil on canvas
72.8 × 56 cm
Budapest, Hungary

Luminous figures float against swirling clouds in this Venetian composition, with the Virgin enthroned centrally among six saints rendered in Tiepolo's characteristic soft, ethereal brushwork. The dynamic celestial arrangement exemplifies Rococo spirituality, transforming religious devotion into theatrical grandeur through light and movement.

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