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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:: 29988
Rinaldo Sees Himself in Ubaldo's Shield
mk67
Oil on canvas
27 3/16x52in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 29989
Rinaldo Abandons Armida
mk67
Oil on canvas
27 9/16x52in
Uffizi,Gallery
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Painting ID:: 31786
Perseus and andromeda
mk76
Painted probably in 1730
Oil on paper,affixed to canvas
20 3/8x16in
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Painting ID:: 33745
St Charles Borromeo
mk86
c.1767-1769
Oil on canvas
122.6x111.5cm
Cincinnati,Cincinnati Museum of Art
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Painting ID:: 33799
Rinaldo and Armida
mk86
1753
Oil on canvas
104.8x143cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen
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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: | Berghe, Christoffel van den | Adriaen Frans Boudewijns | Peter Nicolai Arbo | Sir Hubert von Herkomer,RA,RWS | Fred Morgan |
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