(ANSA) - TRIESTE - Seventy-seven drawings by Giambattista Tiepolo, owned by the Civic Museums of History and Art of Trieste, were sent to the ''Narodna Galerija'' in Ljubljana in order to be shown from June 1 to September 3 at the exhibition ''Giambattista Tiepolo 1696-1770 Drawings'', wanted and promoted by the Italian Embassy in the Slovenian capital. The exhibition features a significant selection of pieces from the Civic Museo Sartorio (Trieste), testifying the multifaceted nature of Giambattista Tiepolo's talent, a symbol of the 18th century Venetian art. In 1910 the Civic Museums got hold of the collection which belonged to Baron Giuseppe Sartorio, composed of 254 sheets, one of the most important in the graphic corpus of 18th century Venetian painting. Sartorio, a passionate art collector from Trieste, bought it at the antique shop run in the city by Giuseppe Zanolla, with the aim of giving it to the city. At the outbreak of World War I, the drawings migrated to Ljubljana and returned to Trieste on June 21, 1941. (ANSA).