Art, literature & historyGiovanni Battista Piazzetta
1683–1754
Selected artwork
Saint Margaret of Cortona
1737
National Gallery of Art
Other names (68)
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Biography
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.
Piazzetta was born in Venice, the son of a sculptor Giacomo Piazzetta, from whom he had early training in wood carving. Starting in 1697 he studied with the painter Antonio Molinari. By Piazzetta's account, he studied under Giuseppe Maria Crespi while living in Bologna in 1703–05, although there is no record by Crespi of formal tutelage. Thanks to Crespi, Carlo Cignani's influence reached Piazzetta. Piazzetta did find inspiration in Crespi's art, in which the chiaroscuro of Caravaggio was transformed into an idiom of graceful charm in his pictures of common folk. He was also greatly impressed by the altarpieces created by another Bolognese painter of a half-century earlier, Guercino.
Around 1710, he returned to Venice.
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Influenced by
- Silvestro Manaigoeditorial inference
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- Antonio Molinarieditorial inference
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Later influence
- Giovanni Battista Tiepoloeditorial inference
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- Franz Anton Maulbertscheditorial inference
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The biography identifies Giovanni Battista Piazzetta as an artistic influence on Franz Anton Maulbertsch. Piazzetta and Pittoni influenced Maulbertsch through the mediation of Troger. Explicit secondary-source assertion; independent historical verification remains pending.
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Museums & collections
Documented holdings of works attributed to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta. Check the museum’s record for current display information.
- National Gallery of Art6 recorded works
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art3 recorded works
- musée Ingres Bourdelle — Montauban2 recorded works
- The Cleveland Museum of Art2 recorded works
- Art Institute of Chicago1 recorded work
- Gothenburg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden1 recorded work