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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.
PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista (b. 1683, Venezia, d. 1754, Venezia) The Death of Darius c. 1746 Oil on canvas, 240 x 480 cm Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice
Ca' Rezzonico (Italian pronunciation: [ˈka (r)retˈtsɔːniko]) is a palazzo and art museum on the Grand Canal in the Dorsoduro sestiere of Venice, Italy.It is a particularly notable example of the 18th century Venetian baroque and rococo architecture and interior decoration, and displays paintings by the leading Venetian painters of the period, including Francesco Guardi and Giambattista ...
Francesco Polazzo (1683–1753) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque period, active mainly in Venice.He was a pupil of Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and painted portraits and historical subjects, though better known as a restorer of pictures.
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1683–1754) Giovanni Picca (1840–1910) Nicola di Pietro (14th century) Domenico Piola (1627–1703) Pinturicchio (1454–1513) Sebastiano del Piombo (c. 1485–1547) Fausto Pirandello (1899–1975) Giuseppe Pirovani (c. 1755–c. 1835) Pisanello (1395–1455) Michelangelo Pittatore (1825–1903) Giambattista ...
100 Great Paintings is a British television series broadcast in 1980 on BBC Two, devised by Edwin Mullins. [1] He chose 20 thematic groups, such as war, the Adoration, the language of colour, the hunt, and bathing, picking five paintings from each. [2]
Important Venetian painters included Sebastiano Ricci (1659–1734) and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1683–1754) but the greatest baroque exponent was Gianbattista Tiepolo (1696–1770). He is renowned for his light palette of colours used with fluid brush strokes, and it is his frescoes rather than his canvases that exhibit these techniques ...
The leading lights of the 18th century came from Venice. Among them were the brilliant exponent of the rococo style, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; the architectural painters Francesco Guardi, Canaletto, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, and Bernardo Bellotto; and the engraver of Roman antiquities, Giovanni Battista Piranesi.