Giambattista Tiepolo
(Italian, 1696–1770)
Place ActiveEurope
SchoolVenetian Baroque
BiographyTiepolo's brilliant talents, especially as a decorator of palaces, villas, and churches, won him fame far beyond his native Venice; already by the age of thirty he was referred to as “celebre Pittor.” Tiepolo worked for patrons not only throughout North Italy but also in Würzburg and Madrid. A prolific artist, he painted — both in oils and in fresco — religious, historical, and mythological subjects.Source: Art in The Frick Collection: Paintings, Sculpture, Decorative Arts, New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1996.
