Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth

Museum record 16434: Virgin and Child with Saints Dominic and Hyacinth by Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. A verified entry point for discovery.

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In this altarpiece, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo conceived the traditional subject of the Virgin and Child with interceding saints as if the two figures have miraculously appeared on an altar in a light-filled vision, surrounded by the golden clouds of heaven. The infant gives Saint Dominic a rosary; the saint had founded a preaching order that was closely associated with the use of the rosary as a spiritual exercise. The embroidered decorative scenes on the altar cloth depict the mysteries of the rosary, k…