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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Discovery of Pulcinella’s Grave

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo - The Discovery of Pulcinella’s Grave

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How can Pulcinella’s grave be discovered? After all, Pulcinella is a stock character in the commedia dell’ arte, the improvised Italian theatre. As such he does not actually exist, yet he is nevertheless immortal. However, everything is possible in the world that sprang from Tiepolo’s mind, and so he lies buried here (right foreground). The bone and hourglass emphasize that Pulcinella is also just a human, who has died.

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1600 - 1700
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Rijksmuseum
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Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication ("CCO 1.0 Dedication")

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