Giambattista Pittoni

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Giambattista Pittoni (1687-1767) was a Venetian painter. His subjects were religious, historical, and mythological (such as Sophonisba and Polyxena). A contemporary of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, whom he succeeded as President of the Venice Academy of Painting (1758-1761) (he was also its co-founder), 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. 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.

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