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TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista: Portrait of Daniele IV Dolfin

🖼 Portrait of Daniele IV Dolfin, 1750s
Oil on canvas
235 × 158 cm
Venice, Italy

Soft brushwork and warm light define this Venetian nobleman's dignified profile, rendered with Tiepolo's characteristic elegance and restraint. The portrait captures the refined taste of eighteenth-century Venice's merchant elite, exemplifying the artist's mastery of aristocratic portraiture during the Republic's final golden age.

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