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223: 285:, Tiepolo and Mengozzi were commissioned to decorate rooms for the wedding of Louis and Faustina Savorgnan. In the wedding room ceiling, we see the couple carried on Apollo's chariot, drawn by four white horses, preceded by Cupid, blindfolded and surrounded by allegorical figures: the three Graces, Fame, Wisdom, bearing the flag of Merit with the heraldic arms of the Rezzonico and Savorgnan family. Again Tiepolo made the figures, while Mengozzi frames the scenes. In the Throne Room, they depicted the 25: 330:
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Between 1728 and 1733, he also worked as a scenic designer, a common pursuit for quadraturistas. He painted sets for the theaters of San Samuele and of San Giovanni Grisostomo. Between 1749-1750 he also worked with sets of
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for the patrician Andrea Cornaro. It is presumed that the two latter artists collaborated in decorating the octagonal room of the Villa Morosini Vendramin Calergi in
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During most of the years between 1720 and 1743, Mengozzi is a member of the Venetian painters' guild. He journeyed to Rome in 1724. He entered the
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Mengozzi's first collaboration with Tiepolo was the decoration of the hall on the first floor (1719-1720) of the Villa Baglioni in
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In 1726, he worked with Tiepolo in the gallery of the archbishop's palace and the Chapel of the Holy Sacrament in the
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Born in Ferrara, Gerolamo was a pupil of the painters of architectural perspective painters
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With the departure of Tiepolo for Spain in 1762, Mengozzi began a collaboration with
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by 1716, where he began collaborations that spanned over four decades with
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Gli artisti italiani e stranieri negli stati estensi catalogo storico ...
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Together with the Tiepolo, Mengozzi helped decorate the Venetian
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Mengozzi also collaborated with the son of Giovanni Battista,
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Bellerophon on Pegasus in flight toward the Glory and Eternity
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Mengozzi's contribution to the fresco of Bellerophon is the
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architecture around scenes, doorways and framing this oval
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of Fine Arts in Venice, and became a professor by 1766.
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Antonio Felice Ferrari
Francesco Scala
Venice
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Giandomenico
Mattia Bortoloni
Villa Cornaro
Piombino Dese
Fiesso Umbertiano
Massanzago
Santa Maria degli Scalzi
Castello
Cathedral
Udine
Palazzo Labia

Trompe-l'œil
Academy of St. Luke
Accademia
Teatro Regio
Palazzina di Caccia of Stupinigi
Giandomenico Tiepolo
Santi Faustino e Giovita
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