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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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Allegory of Merit Accompanied by Nobility and Virtue
1757-58 Fresco, 1000 x 600 cm
Painting ID:: 52206
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Allegory_of_Merit_Accompanied_by_Nobility_and_Virtue
1757-58 Fresco, 1000 x 600 cm
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The Virgin with Six Saints
1737-40 Oil on canvas, 72,8 x 56 cm
Painting ID:: 52225
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The_Virgin_with_Six_Saints
1737-40 Oil on canvas, 72,8 x 56 cm
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Brollopsallegori
mk234
1758
Painting ID:: 53840
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Brollopsallegori
mk234
1758
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Queen Zenobia talk to their soldiers
mk234
about 1730
262x366cm
Painting ID:: 53841
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Queen_Zenobia_talk_to_their_soldiers
mk234
about 1730
262x366cm
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young woman with macaw
mk247
c.1760,oil on canvas,ashomlean museum,oxford,uk
Painting ID:: 56127
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young_woman_with_macaw
mk247
c.1760,oil on canvas,ashomlean museum,oxford,uk
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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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