Giovanni Battista Pittoni

(1687–1767) stor mästare Italiensk målning

Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687–1767) is listed in the catalogue as a painter and a draughtsman. By year of birth, Giovanni Battista Pittoni belongs to the chapter ‘Rococo’ in this site’s history of art.

Giovanni Battista Pittoni was born in Venice and died in Venice. The teachers included Francesco Pittoni and Antonio Balestra. Giovanni Battista Pittoni worked in Venice and Republic of Venice. Wikidata associates Giovanni Battista Pittoni with Baroque and Rococo. The students included Anton Kern and Cesare Ligari.

The best-known works include ‘Polyxena in front of the Achilles' Tomb’, ‘Bacchus and Ariadne’, ‘Christ Giving the Keys to Paradise to St. Peter’, and ‘Portrait of Cardinal Bartolomeo Roverella’. The catalogue has 92 works by Giovanni Battista Pittoni with free images. The dated works span the years 1558–1767. Works by Giovanni Battista Pittoni are held by several collections, among them Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen, Département des peintures du Louvre, Eremitaget, and National Trust for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty. Wikidata links one work to a movement covered in the chapter ‘The Renaissance’.

Contemporary artists in the same chapter include Agostino Cornacchini, Wang Shishen, Li Shan, Carlo Innocenzo Carloni, and Jacob van Huysum.

• Rococo
• Head of the Virgin
• Bebådelsen
• Hagar in the desert