Giambattista Brustolon. Giambattista Brustolon was an Italian engraver in Venice.
The rare biographical notes of Giambattista Brustolon come from his works. He was the son of Gioata Brustolon, native of Belluno.
From 1739 Giambattista was in the engraving workshop of Giuseppe Wagner, who was on of the most important Venetian engravers of the time. On behalf of the print dealer and publisher Lodovico Furlanetto, the painter Canaletto made twelve drawings of traditional Venetian festivals in pen, brown ink and gray watercolor known as the Dogal Solemnity and which were engraved between 1766 and 1768 by Giambattista Brustolon, who proved a refined interpreter of 18th-century Venetian art.
These engravings were later turned into paintings by Francesco Guardi. The Dogal Solemnity celebrated the election, in 1763, of Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo.
Among this series of engravings of Venetian feasts made by Brustolon were the Doge thanks the Major Council, Coronation of the Doge, Marriage of the Sea, Feast of the Salute, the Doge of Venice attends the feasts of Shrove Thursday on the Piazzetta, the Doge offers lunch to the ambassadors, the Doge in Piazza San Marco gives money to the people, Corpus Domini procession, the Doge on the Bucintoro and Departure of the Bucintoro for San Nicolo from Lido on the day of the Ascension. The Correr Museum holds all the twelve engravings of Brustolon, but this museum has only te
The rare biographical notes of Giambattista Brustolon come from his works. He was the son of Gioata Brustolon, native of Belluno.
From 1739 Giambattista was in the engraving workshop of Giuseppe Wagner, who was on of the most important Venetian engravers of the time. On behalf of the print dealer and publisher Lodovico Furlanetto, the painter Canaletto made twelve drawings of traditional Venetian festivals in pen, brown ink and gray watercolor known as the Dogal Solemnity and which were engraved between 1766 and 1768 by Giambattista Brustolon, who proved a refined interpreter of 18th-century Venetian art.
These engravings were later turned into paintings by Francesco Guardi. The Dogal Solemnity celebrated the election, in 1763, of Doge Alvise IV Mocenigo.
Among this series of engravings of Venetian feasts made by Brustolon were the Doge thanks the Major Council, Coronation of the Doge, Marriage of the Sea, Feast of the Salute, the Doge of Venice attends the feasts of Shrove Thursday on the Piazzetta, the Doge offers lunch to the ambassadors, the Doge in Piazza San Marco gives money to the people, Corpus Domini procession, the Doge on the Bucintoro and Departure of the Bucintoro for San Nicolo from Lido on the day of the Ascension. The Correr Museum holds all the twelve engravings of Brustolon, but this museum has only te
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