Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - The Building of the Trojan Horse [c.1760]

Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo - The Building of the Trojan Horse [c.1760], a photo by Gandalf's Gallery on Flickr.

This is part of a series of sketches illustrating a famous passage from Virgil's Aeneid. The Greeks build a wooden horse, fill it with armed men and leave it outside the enemy city of Troy. Painted presumably about 1760, the two pictures are close in style to the work of the artist's father Giambattista. Giovanni Domenico (1727 – 1804) was born in Venice, the eldest surviving son of Giambattista Tiepolo, whose assistant he became. He worked in Venice, Würzburg and Vicenza. In 1762 he accompanied his father to Madrid, and on his death in 1770 returned to Venice.

[Oil on canvas, 38.8 x 66.7 cm]