Giovanni BattistaTiepolo

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"The eighteenth century saw the decline of Venice as a major power. One result of the Republic's dwindling fortunes was the virtual disappearance of state sponsorship of the arts. In response to the need to find new markets the city's painters developed two ways of representing Venice that were intimately related to its gradual descent. The first is the work of the view painters, whose eminently exportable scenes of the astonishing city signal its eminence as a tourist attraction at the time tourism was being invented. The second is the glorious classical, mythological and allegorical paintings with which Giovanni Battista Tiepolo fulfilled the commissions of the great families of Venice. In mythological guise and sixteenth-century garb Tiepolo's extravagant art met the aristocracy's demand for ostentatious representations of their own power, virtues, and.."

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