# Telamon

[View the canonical artwork record](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a/telamon-r8cabf978c88545>)

## Artwork

- Artist: [PIAZZETTA, Giacomo](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Terracotta

## Commentary

This is a rare proof of the skill of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta&#39;s father as a sculptor. Atlas figures of this kind were common in Venetian Baroque sculpture, forming decorative supports for everything from the façades of palaces to the arms of chairs.

## Related artworks

- [Altar frontal \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a/altar-frontal-detail-r463a5f11a1ef33>)
- [Altar frontal \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a/altar-frontal-detail-ra25b19bab2b883>)
- [Altar frontal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a/altar-frontal-rca2c81a0ac4173>)
- [Altar frontal](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a/altar-frontal-rf9b25d5326380c>)
- [The Flight into Egypt](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/piazzetta-giacomo-r94c9968e83dc7a/the-flight-into-egypt-r9c7cce3de12935>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)