Giambattista Pittoni

, Also called Giovanni Battista Pittoni Giambattista, (* June 20, 1687 in Venice, † November 17, 1767 ) was an Italian painter and draftsman of the late Baroque and Rococo. Along side Tiepolo as a main representatives of the Venetian Rococo.

Life

Pittoni came from a family of architects and painters. He was taught by his uncle Francesco Pittoni in Venice and Antonio Balestra and joined in 1716 the Venetian Painters Guild. He was a very respected artist in his time of large-format paintings with mythological, historical and religious subjects. He was a founding member of the Venetian Academy of Fine Arts ( Accademia di Belle Arte de Venezia) and successor of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as its president ( 1759-1761 ). Pittoni traveled reluctantly, took over in Venice but orders from Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia. 1745 to 1747 he was in Verona and Bergamo and 1760 in Cracow. In addition to Tiepolo, he was influenced by Sebastiano Ricci, Antonio Balestra and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta.

He painted some altar paintings in Venetian churches ( for example, Sebastiano Ricci and Tiepolo in San Cosmo and Damiano, 1730 ) as well as churches in Vicenza and Brescia. Of his frescoes in private houses only some frescoes from the life of Diana in palazzetto Widman in Bagnoli di Sopra are obtained even at Padua or known.

According to L. Vertova he was next to Tiepolo and Piazzetta one of the innovators of Venetian painting in the wake of Sebastiano Ricci, this was of inventiveness after, but since he was on the other hand more open to the contemporary trends in painting, he was in his lifetime successful, but later been quickly forgotten.

Pittoni left behind an extensive collection of drawings.

Gallery

The Holy Elisabeth distributed alms, 1734, Budapest, Museum of Fine Arts

Dionysus and Ariadne, 1730-1735, Sao Paulo

St. Jerome, Rimini

Eliezer and Rebecca, Museum of Fine Arts, Bordeaux