Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, also known as Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style.
He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period.
Successful from the beginning of his career, he has been described by Michael Levey as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, as well as its most able craftsman. Born in Venice, he was the youngest of six children of Domenico and Orsetta Tiepolo.
His father was a small shipping merchant who belonged to a family that bore the prestigious patrician name of Tiepolo without claiming any noble descent. Some of the children acquired noble godparents, and Giambattista was originally named after his godfather, a Venetian nobleman called Giovanni Battista Dorià.
He was baptised on 16 April 1696 in the local church, San Pietro di Castello. His father died about a year later, leaving his mother to bring up a family of young children, presumably in somewhat difficult circumstances. In 1710 he became a pupil of Gregorio Lazzarini, a successful painter with an eclectic style. He was, though, at least equally strongly influenced by his s
He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period.
Successful from the beginning of his career, he has been described by Michael Levey as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe, as well as its most able craftsman. Born in Venice, he was the youngest of six children of Domenico and Orsetta Tiepolo.
His father was a small shipping merchant who belonged to a family that bore the prestigious patrician name of Tiepolo without claiming any noble descent. Some of the children acquired noble godparents, and Giambattista was originally named after his godfather, a Venetian nobleman called Giovanni Battista Dorià.
He was baptised on 16 April 1696 in the local church, San Pietro di Castello. His father died about a year later, leaving his mother to bring up a family of young children, presumably in somewhat difficult circumstances. In 1710 he became a pupil of Gregorio Lazzarini, a successful painter with an eclectic style. He was, though, at least equally strongly influenced by his s
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