Stock Photo - Tribute to the Mandarin (Omaggio al Mandarino), by Andrea Urbani, 1773, 18th Century, fresco. Italy, Veneto, Padua, Noventa Padovana, Villa Grimani Vendramin Calergi. Whole artwork view. The Mandarin sits under a canopy, on the top of a white staircase, set in an elegant frame of marble pillars and garden storm drains decorated with ivy plants; he wears traditional Chinese garments, light-blue and golden-coloured, and offers his hand to a man lying on his knees four steps below, behind whom can be seen a male figure wearing traditional Chinese dresses who is going up the stairs; other characters occupied in various mansions are attending the scene.