1740

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Religious painting · Rococo

The Road to Calvary (Tiepolo)

Giambattista Tiepolo

1740 · Sant'Alvise, Venice

Even the Passion gets Tiepolo's airy color and snapping banners, the whole shoving procession swept upward toward Golgotha as theater.

★ 6.1

Mythological painting · Rococo

The Birth and Triumph of Venus

Francois Boucher

1740 · Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

Venus in a pearly sea with nymphs, tritons and putti all around, made entirely to delight and not at all to instruct.

★ 5.2