# Triumph of Aurora

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## Artwork

- Artist: [TIEPOLO, Giovanni Battista](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68>)
- Date: 1701-1750
- Technique: Fresco

## Commentary

The ceiling of the main hall, which opens up to a faux sky, contains a depiction of The Triumph of Aurora, in which the goddess is accompanied by numerous mythological figures, including Zephyr and Flora and Time, who is depicted as a winged old man armed with a scythe and an hourglass, and positioned on a painted frame.

## Related artworks

- [A Seated Man and a Girl with a Pitcher](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/a-seated-man-and-a-girl-with-a-pitcher-r1673383b662ef2>)
- [Abraham and the Three Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/abraham-and-the-three-angels-rf013a155788725>)
- [Abraham Praying before the Three Angels](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/abraham-praying-before-the-three-angels-r91c1059ae15139>)
- [Adoration of the Magi](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/adoration-of-the-magi-r0de8caf1daed56>)
- [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/aeneas-introducing-cupid-dressed-as-ascanius-to-dido-detail-r458bf7d4ebd54f>)
- [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/aeneas-introducing-cupid-dressed-as-ascanius-to-dido-detail-ra31c855e6dabd8>)
- [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/aeneas-introducing-cupid-dressed-as-ascanius-to-dido-r23a11e7c2e1a5f>)
- [Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/aeneas-introducing-cupid-dressed-as-ascanius-to-dido-r40ce4502ad7125>)
- [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/allegory-of-merit-accompanied-by-nobility-and-virtue-detail-r631773e922582c>)
- [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/allegory-of-merit-accompanied-by-nobility-and-virtue-detail-r874215a2e32fc4>)
- [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/allegory-of-merit-accompanied-by-nobility-and-virtue-rcbb8b389ad5cd5>)
- [Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/tiepolo-giovanni-battista-r26181c3d601c68/allegory-of-merit-accompanied-by-nobility-and-virtue-rda3598bb66560f>)

## Attribution

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