Giovanni Battista Piazzetta worked at a period when the terms of art itself were being renegotiated.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as Italian painter (1683–1754).
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was born at Venice in 1683. His recorded nationality is Italy.
Patronage, the guild system and a new open art market shaped what could be painted and for whom.
He worked as painter, fresco painter and draftsperson.
Among his best-known works are The Assumption of the Virgin, Portrait of Giulia Lama and Judith and Holofernes. An artist's reputation moves with taste, but the work stays exactly where it was left.
That the work was made in Italy shaped it: artistic traditions, academies and the galleries that decide what is seen have never been evenly distributed.
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta died in 1754, aged 71. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: The Assumption of the Virgin
- Notable work: Portrait of Giulia Lama
- Notable work: Judith and Holofernes
- Notable work: Three Dominican Saints
