Tiepolo, GIOVANNI BATTISTA

Tiepolo, GIOVANNI BATTISTA, the last of the great Venetian school, was born at Venice 5th March 1692, and modelled himself on Paul Veronese. His first works were in the adornment of churches and palaces in and about Venice; in 1750–53 he executed a great series of frescoes in the archiepiscopal palace at Würzburg, and in 1760 was engaged on the palace of Madrid. At Madrid he died, 27th March 1769. He was a most productive painter, rich in colour (especially in his easel pictures), and clear (though incorrect) in drawing. His chief works were the Old Testament histories—the palace at Udine and the frescoes at Madrid. His two sons were also painters, and like their father etchers also. See Molmenti, Il Carpaccio e il Tiepolo (Turin, 1885).