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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1696-1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born in Venice on March 5, 1696. His father, who was part owner of a ship, died when Tiepolo was scarcely a year old, but the family was left in comfortable circumstances. As a youth, he was apprenticed to Gregorio Lazzarini, a mediocre but fashionable painter known for his elaborately theatrical, rather grandiose compositions.
Tiepolo soon evolved a more spirited style of his own. By the time he was 20, he had exhibited his work independently, and won plaudits, at an exhibition held at the church of S. Rocco. The next year he became a member of the Fraglia, or painters guild. In 1719 he married Cecilia Guardi, whose brother Francesco was to become famous as a painter of the Venetian scene. They had nine children, among them Giovanni Domenico and Lorenzo Baldassare, who were also painters.
In the 1720s Tiepolo carried out many large-scale commissions on the northern Italian mainland. Of these the most important is the cycle of Old Testament scenes done for the patriarch of Aquileia, Daniele Dolfin, in the new Archbishop Palace at Udine. Here Tiepolo abandoned the dark hues that had characterized his early style and turned instead to the bright, sparkling colors that were to make him famous.
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Diana and Actaeon
mk157
1720-22
Oil on canvas
10x135cm
Painting ID:: 41174
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Diana_and_Actaeon
mk157
1720-22
Oil on canvas
10x135cm
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A Genius on Pegasus Banishing Time
mk157
Fresco
Diameter
Painting ID:: 41185
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A_Genius_on_Pegasus_Banishing_Time
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Fresco
Diameter
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Cleopatra-s Banquet
mk157
1746-47
Fresco
650x300cm
Painting ID:: 41186
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Cleopatra-s_Banquet
mk157
1746-47
Fresco
650x300cm
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Portrait of A Procurator and Admiral From the Dolfin family
mk157
1749-50
Oil on canvas
235x158cm
Painting ID:: 41216
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Portrait_of_A_Procurator_and_Admiral_From_the_Dolfin_family
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1749-50
Oil on canvas
235x158cm
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The Capture of Carchage
mk161
Oil on canvas
Painting ID:: 41283
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The_Capture_of_Carchage
mk161
Oil on canvas
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Giovanni_Battista_Tiepolo
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1696-1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born in Venice on March 5, 1696. His father, who was part owner of a ship, died when Tiepolo was scarcely a year old, but the family was left in comfortable circumstances. As a youth, he was apprenticed to Gregorio Lazzarini, a mediocre but fashionable painter known for his elaborately theatrical, rather grandiose compositions.
Tiepolo soon evolved a more spirited style of his own. By the time he was 20, he had exhibited his work independently, and won plaudits, at an exhibition held at the church of S. Rocco. The next year he became a member of the Fraglia, or painters guild. In 1719 he married Cecilia Guardi, whose brother Francesco was to become famous as a painter of the Venetian scene. They had nine children, among them Giovanni Domenico and Lorenzo Baldassare, who were also painters.
In the 1720s Tiepolo carried out many large-scale commissions on the northern Italian mainland. Of these the most important is the cycle of Old Testament scenes done for the patriarch of Aquileia, Daniele Dolfin, in the new Archbishop Palace at Udine. Here Tiepolo abandoned the dark hues that had characterized his early style and turned instead to the bright, sparkling colors that were to make him famous.
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