Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Immaculate Conception Painting ID:: 1612 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo1.jpg
The Immaculate Conception 1767-69
Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo St.Thecla Liberating the City of Este from the Plague Painting ID:: 1614 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo3.jpg
St.Thecla Liberating the City of Este from the Plague 1759
Duome, Este
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Mercury Appearing to Aeneas Painting ID:: 1615 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo4.jpg
Mercury Appearing to Aeneas 1757
Villa Valmarana, Vicenza
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Last Communion of St.Lucy Painting ID:: 1616 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo5.jpg
The Last Communion of St.Lucy 1747-48
Santi Apostoli, Venice
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra Painting ID:: 1617 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo6.jpg
The Meeting of Anthony and Cleopatra 1746-47 Fresco
Palazzo Labia, Venice
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Banquet of Cleopatra Painting ID:: 1618 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo7.jpg
The Banquet of Cleopatra 1743-44
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Portrait of Antonio Riccobono Painting ID:: 1619 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo8.jpg
Portrait of Antonio Riccobono 1743-45
Pinacoteca dell'Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Triumph of Zephyr and Flora Painting ID:: 1620 Giovanni Battista Tiepolo9.jpg
The Triumph of Zephyr and Flora 1734-35
Museo del Settecento Veneziano di Ca'Rezzonico, Venice
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Last Supper (mk05) Painting ID:: 20703 new6/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-596329.jpg
The Last Supper (mk05) ca 1745-50
Canvas 32 x 35 1/2 (81 x 90 cm)Acquired in 1877
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Carnival Scene or the Minuet (mk05) Painting ID:: 20704 new6/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-524584.jpg
Carnival Scene or the Minuet (mk05) Canvas 32 x 43 1/2''(81 x 111 cm)Pendant to The Tooth Puller Collection of Count Algarotti,Venice 1779;Beaqueathed in 1938
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rebecca at the Well (mk05) Painting ID:: 20705 new6/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-375562.jpg
Rebecca at the Well (mk05) Canvas 33 x 41''(84 x 105 cm)Given by the Comtesse Bismarck in 1975;entered the Permanent collection in 1981 R.F
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Presenting Christ to the People (Ecce Homo) (mk05) Painting ID:: 20706 new6/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-582856.jpg
Presenting Christ to the People (Ecce Homo) (mk05) Canvas 26 x 17''(66 x 43 cm)Given in 1949;entered the Louvre in 1974
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery (mk05) Painting ID:: 20709 new6/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-244843.jpg
Christ with the Woman Taken in Adultery (mk05) Canvas 44 x 70 1/2''(112 x 179 cm)Bequeathed in 1961;entered the Louvre in 1977 R.F
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Tooth Puller (mk05) Painting ID:: 20711 new6/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-563829.jpg
The Tooth Puller (mk05) 1754
Canvas 32 x 43 1/4''(81 x 110 cm)Pendant to Carnival Scene or the Minuet Collection of Count Algarotti in Venice 1779;bequeathed in 1938 R.F
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo St Charles Borromeo (mk08) Painting ID:: 21837 new7/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-297395.jpg
St Charles Borromeo (mk08) c.1767-1769
Oil on canvas,
122.6x111.5cm
Cincinnati,Cincinnati Museum of Art
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo and Armida (mk08) Painting ID:: 21922 new7/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-376799.jpg
Rinaldo and Armida (mk08) 1753
Oil on canvas
104.8x143cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rachel Hiding the Idols from her Father Laban (mk08) Painting ID:: 21923 new7/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-244747.jpg
Rachel Hiding the Idols from her Father Laban (mk08) 1726-1728
Fresco,height
500x400cm
Udine,Palazzo Arcivescovile
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Sarah and the Archangel (mk08) Painting ID:: 21924 new7/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-825882.jpg
Sarah and the Archangel (mk08) 1726-1728
Fresco,height c.400cm,width c.200cm
Udine,
Palazzo Arcivescovile
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Hagar and Ismael in the Widerness (mk08) Painting ID:: 21925 new7/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-773226.jpg
Hagar and Ismael in the Widerness (mk08) c.1732
Oil on canvas
140x120cm
Venice,Scuola di San Rocco
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Finding of Moses (nn03) Painting ID:: 23507 new8/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-388983.jpg
The Finding of Moses (nn03) c 1730
Oil on canvas 202 x 342 cm 79 x 134 in
National Gallery of Scotland Edinburgh
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Immaculate Conception Painting ID:: 28139 new3/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-789732.jpg
The Immaculate Conception mk61
1767-1769
Oil on canvas
279x152cm
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo The Triumph of Aurelian Painting ID:: 28476 new3/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-499369.jpg
The Triumph of Aurelian mk60
Oil on canvas
215x127"
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Queen Zenbia before Emperor Aurelian Painting ID:: 28685 new3/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-567829.jpg
Queen Zenbia before Emperor Aurelian mk61
c.1717
Oil on canvas
250x500cm
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Erection of a Statue to an Emperor Painting ID:: 29986 new3/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-294625.jpg
Erection of a Statue to an Emperor mk67
Oil on cavnas
163 7/8x68 1/4in
Uffizi,Gallery
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Rinaldo Sees Himself in Ubaldo's Shield Painting ID:: 29988 new3/Giovanni Battista Tiepolo-892524.jpg
Rinaldo Sees Himself in Ubaldo's Shield mk67
Oil on canvas
27 3/16x52in
Uffizi,Gallery
Italian Rococo Era Painter, 1696-1770
Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born in Venice on March 5, 1696. His father, who was part owner of a ship, died when Tiepolo was scarcely a year old, but the family was left in comfortable circumstances. As a youth, he was apprenticed to Gregorio Lazzarini, a mediocre but fashionable painter known for his elaborately theatrical, rather grandiose compositions.
Tiepolo soon evolved a more spirited style of his own. By the time he was 20, he had exhibited his work independently, and won plaudits, at an exhibition held at the church of S. Rocco. The next year he became a member of the Fraglia, or painters guild. In 1719 he married Cecilia Guardi, whose brother Francesco was to become famous as a painter of the Venetian scene. They had nine children, among them Giovanni Domenico and Lorenzo Baldassare, who were also painters.
In the 1720s Tiepolo carried out many large-scale commissions on the northern Italian mainland. Of these the most important is the cycle of Old Testament scenes done for the patriarch of Aquileia, Daniele Dolfin, in the new Archbishop Palace at Udine. Here Tiepolo abandoned the dark hues that had characterized his early style and turned instead to the bright, sparkling colors that were to make him famous.