Giovanni Battista Tempesti

Cristiano Giuseppe Lidarti and Giovanni Battista Tempesti by Nathaniel Dance-Holland, 1759-1760.

Giovanni Battista Tempesti (1729–1804) was an Italian painter. He was born in Volterra. He studied in Pisa and Rome. On his return from to Pisa he painted for the church of San Domenico scenes from the life of Santa Chiara Gambacorti, and for the cathedral the Celebration of Mass by Pope Eugenius III. He painted the music-hall in the Pitti Palace for Leopold I, as well as several frescoes in palaces and villas in Pisa. Among his works is a fresco of the Last Supper for the cathedral of Pisa, a Death of S. Ranieri and a Martyrdom of S. Ursula for the Oratory of San Vito. He died in Pisa.

References

• Bryan, Michael (1889). Walter Armstrong & Robert Edmund Graves, ed. Dictionary of Painters and Engravers, Biographical and Critical (Volume II: L-Z). York St. #4, Covent Garden, London; Original from Fogg Library, Digitized May 18, 2007: George Bell and Sons. pp. page 559.