Opere di giambattista tiepolo biography

A highly praised painter of frescos, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo left a magnificent body work throughout Italy, Germany, Sweden, Russia and Spain. In total Tiepolo created up to 800 paintings, over 2,000 drawings, and several etchings, in addition to his numerous frescos.

He is often regarded as the last of prominent Venetian painter of the grand ceiling frescos seen in the Baroque period. His works were often elaborate forms of storytelling through an entrancing painting style that was the pinnacle of Italian Rocco in the 18th century.

His earliest training came at the age of fourteen in the studio of the Venetian, Gregorio Lazzarini (1655 – 1730) and highly ambitious even in his young age, he executed his first commission at nineteen.

His style of painting was formed by studying the works of other Venetians such as Sebastiano Ricci (1659 – 1734) and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1682 – 1754), forming an interesting influence of grand fresco painting and th