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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (/ t i ˈ ɛ p ə l oʊ / tee-EP-ə-loh, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo, ˈtjeː-]; 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 Venetian school.
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, a Venetian, was the greatest Italian Rococo painter, although his style was founded on the Grand Manner of the High Renaissance. His imaginative decorative frescoes are light in colour and airy in feel; the National Gallery's 'Allegory with Venus and Time' was part of a ceiling decoration and is similarly light and airy.
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. His art celebrates the imagination by transposing the world of ancient history and myth, the scriptures, and sacred legends into a grandiose, even theatrical language.
Apr 11, 2024 · son Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (born March 5, 1696, Venice [Italy]—died March 27, 1770, Madrid, Spain) was a great Italian painter of the 18th century. His luminous, poetic frescoes, while extending the tradition of Baroque ceiling decoration, epitomize the lightness and elegance of the Rococo period.
- Rodolfo Pallucchini
Tiepolo contributed paintings to two of the sumptuous interiors of the Palazzo Barbaro a S. Vidal in Venice. Renovations of the quattrocento palace had been undertaken by Alvise Barbaro (1636–1698), who was especially concerned with the design of the large <i>salone or cameron</i> overlooking the Grand Canal, for which he commissioned a famous group of pictures by Antonio Zanchi, Sebastiano ...
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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.
Italian Paintings: A Catalogue of the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Venetian School. New York, 1973, pp. 60–63, pl. 67, believe that the painting more probably depicts events from the life of the fifth-century-B.C. Roman hero Gaius Marcius Coriolanus than the battle of Vercellae in 101 B.C. Felice Stampfle and Cara D. Denison.
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