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Find the rosary passing from the Child’s hand to Saint Dominic at the right, then look down at the small round scenes embroidered on the altar cloth.
Tiepolo imagined the Virgin and Child as a vision appearing on an altar, surrounded by light and golden cloud. The Child lowers a rosary to Saint Dominic, whose preaching order was closely tied to that prayer, and the embroidered altar cloth shows scenes from the life of Mary and of Jesus that believers meditated on as they counted the beads. Nearly three meters tall, it is one of the many religious paintings Tiepolo made for churches.
Oil on canvas · 274.3 × 137.2 cm · Art Institute of Chicago · Baroque · Rococo
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- Museum title
- Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth
- Artist
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, 1696–1770)
- Date
- 1730–35
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 274.3 × 137.2 cm (108 × 54 in.); Framed: 303.6 × 174 × 12.7 cm (119 1/2 × 68 1/2 × 5 in.)
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Image license
- CC0 1.0 · Public domain
- Museum record
- Art Institute of Chicago
Galler’s rooms and hanging scale are imagined. The image is the museum’s original digital reproduction.