Sacrifice of Isaac

1720 · San Francesco della Vigna, Venice

religious

This painting is the companion piece to Nicola Grassi's Rebecca at the Well in the same church. It was inspired by a work on the same subject by Federico Bencovich (now in the Strossmayer Gallery, Zagreb) and was the product of a period of figurative development and orientation.

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About the Artist

Giambattista Pittoni

1687 – 1767

Venetian painter of religious, historical, and mythological pictures. He was very popular in his day and ranks as one of the best contemporaries of Tiepolo, whom he succeeded as President of the Venice Academy of Painting, 1758-61. Pittoni never left Italy, but he nevertheless received important foreign commissions from the Swedish, Austrian, and German courts. His early work was much indebted to Piazzetta and Sebastiano Ricci, but his style later became lighter and more colourful under the influence of Tiepolo.

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