Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696—1770) was the most eminent Venetian painter of the Rococo style.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Summary
- He was born in the illustrious capital of Venice to an ancient Venetian family
- Trained under Gregorio Lazzarini, an eminent and eclectic painter
- Noted as a luminous innovator early in his career, while painting across North-Eastern Italy
- Also produced etchings, Capricci, and Scherzi, with a fantastic and satirical subject matter
- Commissioned to work in Würzburg as well as Madrid, the latter on a royal commission
- Related to the artistic Guardi family through marriage, his sons also became painters
Tiepolo’s Famous Paintings
- Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva (c. 1721)
- Ca’ Dolfin series (1726—1729)
- Sarah and the Angel (c. 1729)
- The Triumph of Flora (c. 1743)
- The Banquet of Cleopatra (c. 1744)
- Saint Patrick, Bishop of Ireland (1746)
- Allegory of the Planets and Continents (1752)
- The Death of Hyacinth (c. 1753)
- Martyrdom of Saint Agatha (c. 1755)
- The Immaculate Conception (c. 1768)