Giovanni Battista Pittoni

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Portrait of Pittonis by Bartolomeo Nazari
Museum of San Diego, California, United States of America

Giovanni Battista Pittoni , also called Giambattista , (born June 20, 1687 in Venice ; † November 17, 1767 there ) was an Italian painter and draftsman of the late Baroque and Rococo . Along with Tiepolo , Canaletto and Francesco Guardi, he is considered to be a main representative of the Venetian Rococo.

Life

Pittoni came from a family of painters and architects. He received lessons from his uncle Francesco Pittoni in Venice and from Antonio Balestra and joined the Venetian painters' guild in 1716. He was also influenced by Sebastiano Ricci and Giovanni Battista Piazzetta .

Pittoni was a painter of large format paintings with mythological , historical and religious subjects, very much appreciated in his time . He was a founding member of the Venetian Academy of Arts (Accademia di Belle Arte de Venezia) and successor to Giovanni Battista Tiepolo as its president (1759 to 1761). Pittoni did not like to travel, but in Venice he accepted orders from Germany, Austria, Poland and Russia. From 1745 to 1747 he was in Verona and Bergamo and in 1760 in Cracow .

He painted some altar paintings in Venetian churches (for example with Sebastiano Ricci and Tiepolo in Santi Cosma e Damiano around 1730) and churches in Vicenza and Brescia . Of his frescoes in private houses, only a few frescoes from the life of Diana in the Palazzetto Widman in Bagnoli di Sopra near Padua are still preserved or known.

After L. Vertova he was, alongside Tiepolo and Piazzetta, one of the innovators of Venetian painting in the successor of Sebastiano Ricci , was inferior to this in terms of inventiveness, but since he was more open to contemporary trends in painting, he was successful during his lifetime, but later quickly forgotten.

Pittoni left behind an extensive graphic work.

Museums

Uffizi Gallery , Florence; Louvre , Paris; Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York City; National Gallery , London, Great Britain; J. Paul Getty Museum , Los Angeles; Pinacoteca di Brera , Milan, Los Angeles County Museum of Art , Los Angeles; Hermitage (Saint Petersburg) ; Southampton City Art Gallery, United Kingdom; Fitzwilliam Museum , Cambridge, UK; Museu de Arte de São Paulo ; Pushkin Museum , Moscow; Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University, UK; Gallerie dell'Accademia , Venice; Samuel Henry Kress Foundation Collection; Newhouse Galleries, New York; California Palace of the Legion of Honor , San Francisco; Wallraf-Richartz Museum , Cologne; Gemäldegalerie Museum , Berlin; Christchurch Art Gallery , New Zealand; National Gallery of Australia , Canberra; National Gallery of Victoria , Australia; New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester; Ashmolean Museum of Art, Oxford; Museum Berggruen , Berlin; Musee des Beaux Arts de Bordeaux , France; Ca 'Rezzonico - Museum of the Eighteenth Century in Venice, Venice; Kunsthistorisches Museum , Vienna; Courtauld Institute of Art , London, Great Britain; Scottish National Gallery , Edinburgh; National Museum Stockholm; Cleveland Museum of Art , San Diego Museum of Art , San Diego, California; Biblioteca Ambrosiana , Milan; Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum , Madrid; National Museum , Warsaw; Poland, Minneapolis Institute of Arts , Minnesota; Pinacoteca Civica di Vicenza, Vicenza; Accademia dei Concordi , Rovigo; Walters Art Museum , Maryland; Baltimore Museum of Art , Baltimore (MD); JB Speed ​​Art Museum , Louisville (KY); Walker Art Gallery , Liverpool; Prague Castle Tunnel , Prague; Hamburger Kunsthalle , Hamburg; Museo Sartorio , Trieste; York City Art Gallery , York , UK; Saint Louis Art Museum , Saint Louis (MO); Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art , Kansas City (MO); Portland Art Museum , Portland (OR); Moratilla, Paris; Oranienbaum Chinese Palace, Russia.

Works

The catalog of works by Franco Zava Boccazzi the Pittoni paintings lists 247 received and 117 lost, missing or destroyed works. Alice Binion's catalog raisonné of his drawings comprises 304 articles.

literature

  • Vittorio Sgarbi : L'Italia delle meraviglie. Bompiani, Rizzoli libri, Milan 2009, ISBN 978-88-587-0695-4 .
  • M. Goering: GB Pittoni. Florence 1934.
  • L. Goggiola: Dei Pittoni artisti veneti. Bergamo 1907.
  • R. Pallucchini: I disegni di GB Pittoni. Padua 1945.
  • Franca Zava Boccazzi: Pittoni: L'opera completa. Venice 1979. Catalog raisonné of paintings (lists 247 paintings still in existence, 117 missing paintings)
  • Alice Binion: I disegni di Giambattista Pittoni. La Nuova Italia, Florence 1983. Catalog raisonné of drawings (lists 304 drawings)
  • L. Vertova: Giovanni Battista Pittoni . In: Kindler's Malereilexikon
  • H. Voss: Pittoni . In: Hans Vollmer (Hrsg.): General lexicon of fine artists from antiquity to the present . Founded by Ulrich Thieme and Felix Becker . tape 27 : Piermaria – Ramsdell . EA Seemann, Leipzig 1933.
  • Annalisa Perissa Torrini: Disegni di Giovan Battista Pittoni. Electa, 1998.
  • Giovanni Battista Pittoni, Lodovico Dolce: Di Battista Pittoni pittore vicentino anno MDLXVIII Imprese di diuersi prencipi, duchi, signori, e d'altri personaggi et huomini letterati et illustri. 1568, archive.org

Web links

Commons : Giovanni Battista Pittoni  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Kindler's Malereilexikon
personal data
SURNAME Pittoni, Giovanni Battista
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pittoni, Giambattista
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian painter, draftsman of the late baroque and rococo periods
DATE OF BIRTH June 20, 1687
PLACE OF BIRTH Venice
DATE OF DEATH November 17, 1767
Place of death Venice