L’artista satirico nell’epos: Giandomenico Tiepolo e il cavallo di Troia

This study reconsiders a remarkable but overlooked work by Giandomenico Tiepolo, the so-called Building of the Trojan Horse in the collections of the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art at Hartford. Starting from a fresh look to the content, the author identifies a slightly different iconography, as well as the presence of an enigmatic self-portrait of the painter seen from the back. The possible precedents in the tradition of the artists’ self-portraits in Venice are investigated, and an interpretation is offered in connection with the peculiar satirical themes of Giandomenico’s art