In the history of art, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is one of the names that keeps being returned to.
The record lists Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as Italian painter (1696–1770).
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born at Venice in 1696. 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 fresco painter, printmaker and architectural drafter.
His recorded movement is rococo and baroque.
Among his best-known works are Apotheosis of Angelo della Vecchia, Apotheosis of Saint Gaetano Thieme and Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva. Looking is a skill, and the artists who last are those who taught their audience how to do it.
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 Tiepolo died in 1770, aged 74. The work remains, hanging in collections that outlived both the artist and the market that first priced it.
Achievements
- Notable work: Apotheosis of Angelo della Vecchia
- Notable work: Apotheosis of Saint Gaetano Thieme
- Notable work: Scipio Africanus Freeing Massiva
- Notable work: Ceiling fresco in the staircase of the Würzburg Residence
- Movement: Rococo and Baroque
