3618011 The Apotheosis of the Spanish Monarchy, c.1765 (oil on canvas) by Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) (1696-1770); 81.6 x 66.4 cm; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA; (add.info.: From 1762 Tiepolo worked in Spain for Charles III and decorated several rooms in the Palacio Real, Madrid. This oil sketch is for the saleta adjacent to the throne room with a female figure of Spain, lions for the province of Leon, an old woman beside a castle for Castile, and Hercules, protector of Spain, with a column representing Gibraltar. ); Italian, out of copyright.