The Battle of Vercellae
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1725–1729
Marius breaks the Cimbri at Vercellae — Tiepolo's shaped canvas of a Roman victory.
About this work
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo painted The Battle of Vercellae in 1725–29 as one of ten huge canvases of ancient Roman history for the main reception room of the Ca' Dolfin, the Venice palace of the patrician Dolfin family. The paintings were made on shaped canvases set into the architecture, and this one, about 411 by 377 cm, hung on a long wall beside the main door, opposite The Capture of Carthage; they were installed beneath a ceiling by Niccolò Bambini glorifying Venice and the Dolfins. The battle, fought on July 30, 101 BC on a plain near Vercellae in northern Italy, ended the Cimbrian War: a Roman army under the consul Gaius Marius and the proconsul Quintus Lutatius Catulus destroyed the Celtic-Germanic confederation led by the Cimbrian king Boiorix. The scene has no inscription, and some scholars think it may instead show a battle of Coriolanus. Today the ten canvases are divided between New York, St Petersburg's Hermitage and Vienna's Kunsthistorisches Museum. The Metropolitan Museum of Art bought this one, with The Capture of Carthage and The Triumph of Marius, in 1965. Tiepolo (1696–1770) has been called the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe.
Sources: The Metropolitan Museum of Art · Wikipedia: Ca' Dolfin Tiepolos · Wikipedia: Battle of Vercellae
Print facts
- Native resolution
- 5,342 × 5,851 px
- Sharp at 150 ppi up to
- 35 × 39 in
- Sizes
- Small (18 × 20 in) · $100 · 293 ppi
Medium (22 × 24 in) · $150 · 243 ppi
Large (33 × 36 in) · $300 · 162 ppi - Price includes
- Frame and US shipping · 14–21 days · 30-day returns
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Yes. The Battle of Vercellae is in the public domain: its copyright, if it ever had one, expired long ago. In the United States a faithful photograph of a public-domain painting does not create a new copyright (Bridgeman v. Corel, 1999), so the image can be printed and sold freely.
