Oil On Canvas, Real Flavor of Old Masters

Giambattista Pittoni

Giambattista Pittoni Eliezer and Rebecca oil painting on canvas
Eliezer and Rebecca
Painting ID::  73180
new24/Giambattista Pittoni-379977.jpg



Giambattista Pittoni Eliezer and Rebecca oil painting on canvas



Visit European Gallery


  Giambattista Pittoni
  (1687?C1767) was an Italian painter of the late-Baroque or Rococo period, active mainly in his native Venice. Pittoni is best known for his "grand-manner" canvases depicting religious, historical, and mythological subjects (such as Sophonisba and Polyxena). He was a co-founder of the official painter's academy in Venice (in competition to the old fraglia or painter's guild), the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia, and he succeeded as President (1758?C1761) his contemporary Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. Pittoni never left his native Venice, but completed commissions from German, Polish, Russian, and Austrian patrons. His mature palette was noted, as was Tiepolo's, for his lightness of tone. Besides Tiepolo, Pittoni's influences were Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, Sebastiano Ricci, and Antonio Balestra. His paintings were of a Rococo style, but later became more sedate in their approach towards Neoclassicism.
  Eliezer and Rebecca
  Date 18th century Medium Oil on canvas Dimensions 168 X 130 cm (66.14 X 51.18 in) cyf

  Related Paintings::.
  | Visitation | Portrait of a Lady, Naples 1828 | Daughter of Louis XV |


Prev Painting       Next Painting