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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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Painting ID:: 90259
Venus und Vulcanus
1758-1760
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 69 x 87 cm
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Painting ID:: 90756
Eteokles und Polyneikes
c. 1725-1730
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 383 x 182 cm
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Painting ID:: 90777
Opfer der Iphigenie
Mid-18th century
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 53 x 41 cm
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Painting ID:: 90999
Erziehung Mariens
c. 1732
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 362 x 200 cm
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Painting ID:: 91210
Rinaldo und Armida, Entwurf fur gleichnamiges Munchner Gemalde
c. 1753
Medium oil on canvas
Dimensions Deutsch: 39 x 62 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.
. Related Artists to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo: | Ludovico Cigoli | Thomas whittle,jun | Mikhail Nesterov | Nathaniel Sichel | Frances Hudson Storrs |
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