Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo
Realistic Venetian scenes with movement
Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo was an Italian painter and printmaker in etching. He was the son of artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo and elder brother of Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo. Domenico was born in Venice, studied under his father, and by the age of 13 was the chief assistant to him. He was one of the many assistants, including Lorenzo, who transferred the designs of his father (executed in the ’oil sketch’ invented by the same). By the age of 20, he was producing his own work for commissioners. He assisted his father in Würzburg 1751-3, decorating the famous stairwell fresco, in Vicenza at the Villa Valmarana in 1757, and in Madrid at the palace of Charles III from 1762-70. His painting style developed after the death of his father in 1770, at which time he returned to Venice, and worked there as well as in Genoa and Padua. His painting, though keeping the decorative influence of his father, moved from its spatial fancy and began to take a more realistic depiction. His portraits and scenes of life in Venice are characterised by movement, colour, and deliberate composition.
Relationship Network
Master student
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Master
- Johann Dominik Bossi Student
Parent child
- Giovanni Battista Tiepolo Parent
Siblings
- Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo Younger
Artworks by this artist
- The Charlatan 1756
- The Triumph of Pulcinella 1759 - 1770
- The Burial of Punchinello ca. 1800
- Rinaldo Persuaded by Ubaldo and Guelfo to Abandon Armida mid-18th-late 18th century
- The Woman with a Tambourine 1790s
- The Punchinello Riding a Camel at the Head of a Caravan late 1790s
- The Storyteller 1773-1777
- Punchinello as a Dressmaker ca. 1800
- In Piazza ca. 1791
- The Sacrifice of Isaac mid-1750s
- Punchinellos Outside a Circus late 18th-early 19th century
- Allegorical Figure Representing Europe
- The Head of a Crocodile after 1770
- The Acrobats 1727-1804
- Baptism of Christ in the Jordan ca. 1770 - 1790
- The Madonna and Child at Left, with a File of Angels 1750-1753
- The Madonna and Child with the Infant St John the Baptist
- Meleager, Turning to the Right mid-18th-early 19th century
- The Game of Bowls 1797-1804
- Cupid Blindfolded in the Clouds, with Five Attendant Putti ca. 1770-90