Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was an 18th-century Venetian painter known for his dramatic use of chiaroscuro and emotionally intense religious and genre scenes.

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instanceOf Italian Baroque painter
Rococo painter
human
painter
printmaker
activeYearsEnd mid-18th century
activeYearsStart early 18th century
countryOfCitizenship Republic of Venice
created illustrations for the Gerusalemme Liberata edition published in Venice
dateOfBirth 1682
dateOfDeath 1754
ethnicGroup Italian
fieldOfWork book illustration
history painting
religious art
genre genre painting
portrait painting
religious painting
influenced Francesco Guardi
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
influencedBy Caravaggio
Giovanni Battista Gaulli
movement Baroque
Rococo
Venetian Renaissance
surface form: Venetian school
name Giovanni Battista Piazzetta self-link
nativeLanguage Italian
notableFor dramatic use of chiaroscuro
emotionally intense religious scenes
genre scenes
notableWork Saint James Led to Martyrdom
The Assumption of the Virgin (for the church of Santa Maria della Fava)
The Death of Darius
The Ecstasy of Saint Francis
The Fortune Teller
The Virgin and Child with Saints
occupation painter
printmaker
partOf 18th-century Venetian art
placeOfBirth Venice
placeOfDeath Venice
positionHeld director of the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia
sexOrGender male
studiedUnder Antonio Molinari
style dramatic lighting
emotional intensity
technique chiaroscuro
workLocation Venice

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Rosalba Carriera notableStudentOrFollower Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta name Giovanni Battista Piazzetta self-link