Tiepolo's oil sketch for his enormous ceiling fresco over the grand staircase of the Würzburg Residence in Germany. Apollo rises into a luminous sky while figures representing the four continents crowd the edges.
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Allegory of the Planets and Continents
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, 1752. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Open Access (public domain).