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Giovanni Batista Piazzetta

 
Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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(born Feb. 13, 1682, Venice — died April 28, 1754, Venice) Italian painter, illustrator, and designer. Trained as a wood carver by his father, he turned to painting and became one of the outstanding Venetian artists of the 18th century. His art evolved from Italian Baroque traditions of the 17th century to the Rococo style. He had a strong influence on the young Giovanni Battista Tiepolo at the time he painted the finest of his early religious works, St. James Led to Martyrdom (1722). His most popular work is the celebrated Fortune Teller (1740). On the founding of the Venetian Academy in 1750, he was made its first director.

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Art Encyclopedia: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
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(b Venice, 13 Feb 1682; d Venice, 29 April 1754). Painter and draughtsman, son of (1) Giacomo Piazzetta. Most of his works are of religious subjects, yet he also painted genre scenes and occasional portraits; especially famous are his portrait heads in black-and-white chalk. His sombre art, dependent on chiaroscuro and on a limited, almost monochromatic palette, is intense in feeling and deeply realistic, in contrast to the virtuoso performances and brilliant high-keyed palette of his Venetian contemporaries.

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Piazzetta, Giovanni Batista (jōvän'nē bätēs'tä pēätsĕt'tä), 1682-1754, Italian painter. An exponent of the Venetian school, Piazzetta combined soft colors with a dramatic, chiaroscuro technique reminiscent of Caravaggio. His informal brushwork and shimmering figures foreshadowed rococo style and influenced his pupil Tiepolo. Among his major works are Glory of St. Dominic (1727; in the church of Santi Giovanni e Paolo, Venice), The Fortune Teller (c.1745; Accademia, Venice), and a series of charcoal studies of the nude. Engravings of his paintings by Pietro Monaco brought them international attention.
 
 

 

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