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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696 - 1770

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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ( tee-EP-ə-loh, Italian: [dʒoˈvanni batˈtista ˈtjɛːpolo, ˈtjeː-]; 5 March 1696 – 27 March 1770), also known as Giambattista (or Gianbattista) Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice who painted in the Rococo style, considered an important member of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Giovan Battista Tiepolo, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Canaletto, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Maria Crespi, and Francesco Guardi are considered the traditional Old Masters of that period. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Giovanni Battista Tiepolo is the 87th most popular painter (down from 72nd in 2019), the 316th most popular biography from Italy (down from 234th in 2019) and the 24th most popular Italian Painter.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker who was born in Venice. He is most famous for his frescoes.

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Among painters, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ranks 87 out of 2,023. Before him are Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, Georges Seurat, Berthe Morisot, Canaletto, Bronzino, and Max Ernst. After him are François Boucher, Duccio, Jean-Honoré Fragonard, Cimabue, Élisabeth Vigée Le Brun, and Oskar Kokoschka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1696, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ranks 2. Before him is Mahmud I. After him are Augustus III of Poland, Alphonsus Liguori, Maurice de Saxe, Joseph Wenzel I, Prince of Liechtenstein, Shah Jahan II, Abram Petrovich Gannibal, James Oglethorpe, Princess Antoinette of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel, Armand de Vignerot du Plessis, and Christian August, Duke of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Augustenburg. Among people deceased in 1770, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ranks 1. After him are François Boucher, Giuseppe Tartini, Sophie Magdalene of Brandenburg-Kulmbach, Archduchess Maria Theresa of Austria, Suzuki Harunobu, Marie-Anne de Cupis de Camargo, Thomas Chatterton, George Grenville, Jean-Antoine Nollet, George Whitefield, and James Stirling.

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In Italy

Among people born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ranks 316 out of 5,161. Before him are Bonaventure (1221), Pope John II (470), Saint Cecilia (200), Pope Soter (120), Torquato Tasso (1544), and Pope Leo II (611). After him are Alessandro Scarlatti (1660), Pope Benedict VIII (980), Pope Sylvester III (1000), Andrea Bocelli (1958), Giuseppe Mazzini (1805), and Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus (-519).

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Among PAINTERS In Italy

Among painters born in Italy, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo ranks 24. Before him are Domenico Ghirlandaio (1448), Piero della Francesca (1415), Andrea Mantegna (1431), Pietro Perugino (1446), Canaletto (1697), and Bronzino (1503). After him are Duccio (1255), Cimabue (1240), Paolo Uccello (1475), Vittore Carpaccio (1465), Sofonisba Anguissola (1535), and Filippo Lippi (1406).

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