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Tiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto Medieval Money the authors chronicle the BlackTiepolo in Milan: The Lost Frescoes of Palazzo Archinto brings together preparatory drawings and paintings, as well as documentary photographs, to commemorate an extraordinary fresco cycle by the Venetian painter Giambattista Tiepolo (16961770). Painted for Palazzo Archinto in Milan, the frescoes were destroyed in a bombing during World War II. In 173031, Tiepolo undertook his first significant project outside the Veneto, frescoes for five ceilings in