Giovanni battista pittoni biography examples

          Venetian painter of religious, historical, and mythological pictures....

          Giambattista Pittoni

          Giambattista Pittoni (or Giovanni Battista Pittoni; 6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was an Italian painter.

          His paintings are from the late Baroque or Rococo period.[1] He was among the people who started the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.

          Giovanni Battista Pittoni II ( - ) was active/lived in Italy.

        1. Giovanni Battista Pittoni II ( - ) was active/lived in Italy.
        2. Among the foremost history painters in 18th century Venice, Giambattista Pittoni worked for his entire career in the city on the lagoon.
        3. Venetian painter of religious, historical, and mythological pictures.
        4. A fine and interesting example of Giambattista Pittoni's youthful draughtsmanship, this spirited drawing is a preparatory study for his now-lost painting of The.
        5. After Achilles' death his spirit presented itself to his son Neoptolomus and exhorted him to sacrifice Polyxena in the place where his tomb had been erected.

          6. Pittoni was born in Venice on 6 June 1687. He worked there for most of his life.[1][2][3] He travelled to France in 1720. It was around this time that his style of painting changed.

          His style became influenced by French styles.[1] Pittoni joined a Venetian guild of painters in 1716.[4]: 104  He served as president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice from 1758 to 1760 and from 1763 to 1764.[1][5]: 28  He was in high demand all across Italy during his life.[1]

          Loaves and fishes

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          The miracle of the loaves and fishes is a 1725 painting by Pittoni.

          It is in the colle