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Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World
Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago as Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
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- AttributionGiovanni Battista Tiepolo — other records naming Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
- Date1742/43
- Classificationdrawings (visual works)
- MediumBlack chalk, with pen and black and brown ink and brush and various brown washes, heightened with white gouache, on cream laid paper
- DepartmentPrints and Drawings
- Held byArt Institute of Chicago
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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo · Democritus and Heraclitus Laughing and Sorrowing over the Follies of the World · 1742/43 · Art Institute of Chicago. Public domain / CC0.
Source read 2026-09-20 · Published 2026-09-20
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