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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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo Sees Himself in Ubaldo's Shield oil


Rinaldo Sees Himself in Ubaldo's Shield
Painting ID::  29988
Rinaldo Sees Himself in Ubaldo's Shield
mk67 Oil on canvas 27 3/16x52in Uffizi,Gallery
mk67 Oil_on_canvas 27_3/16x52in Uffizi,Gallery
   
   
     

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo Abandons Armida oil


Rinaldo Abandons Armida
Painting ID::  29989
Rinaldo Abandons Armida
mk67 Oil on canvas 27 9/16x52in Uffizi,Gallery
mk67 Oil_on_canvas 27_9/16x52in Uffizi,Gallery
   
   
     

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Perseus and andromeda oil


Perseus and andromeda
Painting ID::  31786
Perseus and andromeda
mk76 Painted probably in 1730 Oil on paper,affixed to canvas 20 3/8x16in
   
   
     

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo St Charles Borromeo oil


St Charles Borromeo
Painting ID::  33745
St Charles Borromeo
mk86 c.1767-1769 Oil on canvas 122.6x111.5cm Cincinnati,Cincinnati Museum of Art
   
   
     

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo and Armida oil


Rinaldo and Armida
Painting ID::  33799
Rinaldo and Armida
mk86 1753 Oil on canvas 104.8x143cm Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen
   
   
     

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     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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