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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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Angelica Carving Medoro's Name on a Tree
1757 Fresco,
20 x 160 cm
Painting ID:: 51305
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Angelica_Carving_Medoro's_Name_on_a_Tree
1757 Fresco,
20 x 160 cm
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Rinaldo Abandoning Armida
1757 Fresco,
220 x 310 cm
Painting ID:: 51306
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Rinaldo_Abandoning_Armida
1757 Fresco,
220 x 310 cm
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The Apotheosis of the Pisani Family
1761-62
Fresco,
2350 x 1350 cm
Painting ID:: 51315
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The_Apotheosis_of_the_Pisani_Family
1761-62
Fresco,
2350 x 1350 cm
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The Rage of Achilles
1757 Fresco,
300 x 300 cm
Painting ID:: 51316
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The_Rage_of_Achilles
1757 Fresco,
300 x 300 cm
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The Martyrdom of St. Bartholomew
1722
Oil on canvas,
167 x 139 cm
Painting ID:: 51317
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The_Martyrdom_of_St._Bartholomew
1722
Oil on canvas,
167 x 139 cm
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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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