1742
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Various Caprices: The Cavalier Mounting his Horse is a 1742 by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Baroque work, depicting Equestrianism, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see a man on horseback in this painting. He's dressed in fancy clothes and has a big hat. The painting shows a lot of movement and energy, which makes it interesting because it looks like the man is about to ride off into a battle or a hunt, and this tells us something about the kind of stories people liked to tell in art back then. You can learn more about this style by looking into the technique of chiaroscuro.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school.
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