painted View with a Cottage by a Stream in Probably Late 19th Century   Related Paintings of Robert Fenson :. | wolfgang amadeus mozart, painted nearly three decades after his death by barbara krafft | Boy with a Red Waistcoat | Portrait of Alexander Pawlowitsch as a boy | THe Healing of the Blind man of Jericho | Eric I, Duke of Brunswick-Luneburg, with his second wife, Elizabeth of Brandenburg, around 1530 |
Related Artists:
Mauritz F H Haas
Dutch (Resident in US) 1832-1895
VERMEER VAN DELFT, Jan
Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1632-1675
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.