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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( / tiˈɛpəloʊ / tee-EP-ə-loh, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo, ˈtjeː-]; [1] 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Ve...
Biography. Born in Venice in 1696 to a prosperous merchant, Giovanni Battista (Giambattista) Tiepolo chose to pursue a career in painting. He was taught by Gregorio Lazzarini (1655-1730), studying under him probably c. 1710. In 1717 he was inscribed in the Venetian painters guild as an independent painter.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. 1696 - 1770. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Venetian, was the greatest Italian Rococo painter, although his style was founded on the Grand Manner of the High Renaissance.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, or Giambattista Tiepolo, (born March 5, 1696, Venice—died March 27, 1770, Madrid), Italian painter and etcher. In the 1730s and ’40s the Venetian clergy and nobility vied for his works.
Ceiling fresco at Würzburg Residence. Detail (self-portrait) - Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Giambattista Tiepolo. Born: March 5, 1696; Venice, Italy ; Died: March 27, 1770; Madrid , Spain ; Active Years: 1719 - 1768 Nationality: Italian; Art Movement: Rococo; Painting School: Venetian School; Field: painting, printmaking
- Italian
- March 5, 1696
- Venice, Italy
- March 27, 1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Keith Christiansen. Department of European Paintings, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. October 2003. The Venetian Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was arguably the greatest painter of eighteenth-century Europe and the outstanding first master of the Grand Manner.
Died 1770. Nationality Italian. Birth place Venice. Death place Madrid. Tiepolo was the outstanding Venetian artist of the eighteenth century. Many of his best works - large, light- filled, colourful and imaginative frescoes, have survived on the walls and ceilings of the villas and palaces for which they were painted.
