Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
1682 – 1754
Venetian painter, son of Giacomo Piazzetta, a woodcarver, who studied under Giuseppe Maria Crespi in Bologna and was probably influenced by him to take up genre subjects. He settled in Venice by 1711, and after his death his family petitioned the State for a pension, claiming that his 'constant studies and his pursuit of glory rather than gain had reduced him to poverty and hastened his death'. His works are comparatively few, and though appearing to be executed with speed and facility were the product of careful deliberation and infinite pains.
26 artworks in collection
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Works
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Museum
St Joseph with the Child
Private collection1730
St Theresa in Ecstasy
Private collection