Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

(1683–1754) Italian painter (1683–1754)

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (1683–1754) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta belongs to the chapter ‘The Baroque’ in this site’s history of art.

Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was born in Venice and died in Venice. The teachers included Giacomo Piazzetta, Antonio Molinari, and Silvestro Manaigo. Giovanni Battista Piazzetta worked in Venice, Bologna, and Venice. The students included Giovanni Battista Casanova and Johann Heinrich Tischbein.

The best-known works include ‘The Assumption of the Virgin’, ‘Portrait of Giulia Lama’, ‘Judith and Holofernes’, and ‘Three Dominican Saints’. The catalogue has 62 works by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta with free images. The dated works span the years 1700–1750. Works by Giovanni Battista Piazzetta are held by several collections, among them Cleveland Museum of Art, drawings in the National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Dresdens nationella konstsamlingar. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘Rococo’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Jan van Huysum, Jan Josef Horemans, Margareta Capsia, Hua Yan, and Shen Nanpin.

• The Baroque
• Accademia - L'indovina 1740-1745 - Giambattista Piazzetta