# The Glory of St Dominic [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista]() - Date: 1701-1750 - Technique: Oil on canvas, 780 x 600 cm ## Commentary In eighteenth-century ceiling decorations, occasionally oil paintings were made to look like frescoes. Piazzetta did not work in fresco, his ceiling in the St Dominic Chapel at Santi Giovanni e Paolo in Venice, which depicts the saint in glory above the stone vault of the chapel, was painted in oil on canvas. Several Dominican monks are seen looming up above the painted rim of the simulated opening, which is emphasized by the trompe-l'oeil motif of a flowerpot. ## Related artworks - [A Young Ensign]() - [Assumption of the Virgin]() - [Beggar Boy]() - [Christ Crucified between the Two Thieves]() - [Idyll at the Coast]() - [Judith and Holofernes]() - [Martyrdom of St James]() - [Martyrdom of St James]() - [Mucius Scaevola before King Porsenna]() - [Peasant Girl]() - [Rebecca at the Well]() - [Shepherd Boy]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()