This artist's most famous series includes depictions of the wedding of (*) Frederick Barbarossa, as well as images of America sitting on a crocodile and Europe seated on a pedestal beside a reclining Balthasar Neumann, who designed the building in which that series is housed.
A gray obelisk symbolizing eternity towers beside Glory as the title hero flies toward her in this artist's Bellerophon on Pegasus. In another of his paintings, a fanfare of Egyptians is shown gathered at a dock to welcome Marc Antony. That work is part of a series painted for the Palazzo Labia. One of this man's later works shows Ancient Castile personified with a tower on a cliffside and Gibraltar symbolized by the Pillars of Hercules as Mercury crowns the title allegory of royalty. This artist's most famous series includes depictions of the wedding of (*) Frederick Barbarossa, as well as images of America sitting on a crocodile and Europe seated on a pedestal beside a reclining Balthasar Neumann, who designed the building in which that series is housed. For 10 points, name this Venetian artist behind The Apotheosis of Spain and Apollo and the Continents, one of his frescos for the Wurzburg Residenz.
A gray obelisk symbolizing eternity towers beside Glory as the title hero flies toward her in this artist's Bellerophon on Pegasus.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo