The Triumph of Virtue and Nobility Over Ignorance by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian, 1696-1770
Oil on canvas (Ceiling painted for the Palazzo Manin, Venice)
This painting was designed for a ceiling in the Palazzo Manin in Venice. Tiepolo was a purest of the Rocco and a master of airborne figures. He was an expert at creating infinite space using luminous colors to give a mediated experience. The shimmering colors give the viewer a sense of hope. I would think virtue is depicted with the woman in white. White being a symbol of virtue. Nobility would be the person with the spear, edpicting nobility and stregnth. I believe the bats are suppose to symbolize ignorance. The darkness of the bats, enhances the evil compared to the light of hope that is depicted in the rest of the paintng. Its like the person with the spear is forcing the bats to see the light of hope.
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