VENETIAN PAINTER, FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY

VENETIAN PAINTER, FIRST HALF OF THE 18TH CENTURY SCIPIO AFRICANUS LIBERATES MASSIVA Oil on canvas, 45.5 × 31.5 cm. Gilded and lacquered wooden frame. The painting depicts the episode of Scipio Africanus freeing Massiva, taken from the account by Titus Livius. The composition is derived from the famous *Scipio Africanus Frees Massiva* painted by Giambattista Tiepolo around 1719–1721, now in the collection of the Walters Art Museum in Baltimore. However, the artist does not faithfully reprodu

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H 45,5 × B 31,5 cm