Giambattista pittoni biography of michaels
Giambattista pittoni biography of michaels
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Giambattista Pittoni
Venetian painter (1687–1767)
Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period.[1] He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the second president, succeeding Tiepolo.[2]
Biography
Pittoni was born in Venice on 6 June 1687.
He studied under his uncle Francesco Pittoni, a well-known but undistinguished painter of the Venetian Baroque; a Samson and Delilah at the Villa Querini in Visinale, near Pasiano di Pordenone, is signed by both painters.[3][4]: 383 The theory of Rodolfo Pallucchini that Pittoni studied under Antonio Balestra is now generally discounted.[1]
Pittoni was unwilling to leave Venice and travelled little;[5][6] although he received many foreign commissions, no journey in connection with any of them is docu