Bacchus and Ariadne, ca. 1740, Pen and brown ink, brown wash, over black chalk. , 12 5/16 x 9 9/16 in. (31. 2 x 24. 3 cm), Drawings, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian, Venice 1696?1770 Madrid), Giambattista Tiepolo was arguably the greatest painter of eighteenth-century Europe, celebrated for his grand decorative cycles in Venetian churches, and in the villas and palaces of Italy, Germany, and Spain