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Giambattista Tiepolo
Rococo master
Tiepolo was a poet of space, like Veronese, but he could not take the Veronese world quite seriously, and his frescoed walls and ceilings are a kind of delicate opéra bouffe of the Veronese subjects.Mary McCarthy, Venice Observed
Born in Venice, the youngest of six children of a shipping merchant, Giambattista Tiepolo (1696–1770), went on to become the greatest and most prolific decorative European painter of the 18th century.
An excellent draughtsman, he was a pupil of Gregorio Lazzarini, and closely studied the work of his great Renaissance predecessors, and of Ricci and Piazzetta, although he had little use for the latter's chiaroscuro. It wasn't long before he departed from his master's style and developed his own, rapid and assured 'all spirit and fire.'
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