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 (207 total)
- The Minuet 1756
- Punchinello Feeding the Peacocks ca. 1800
- Carnival Scene Or The Minuet 1754-55
- The Woman with a Tambourine (1790s) 2
- Joseph Kneels with the Child before Mary on the Donkey 1750-1753
- The Charlatan 1756
- The Flight with the Holy Family at the Right 1750-1753
- The Punchinello Riding a Camel at the Head of a Caravan late 1790s
- The Burial of Punchinello ca. 1800
- Cattle in a Landscape mid-18th-early 19th century
- Punchinellos Felling (or Planting) a Tree late 18th-early 19th century
- Venus mid-18th-early 19th century
- Centaur with Shield and Two Satyresses 1727-1804
- Cupid Blindfolded in the Clouds, with Five Attendant Putti ca. 1770-90
- El Descendimiento 1772
- Head of a Philosopher 1750s-60s
- A Centaur Holding A Lyre, Galloping With A Female Faun
- A Donkey Lying on the Grass, with an Italian Greyhound (on a Base) late 18th century
- Frieze of Allegorical Figures after 1770
- God the Father surrounded by angels and putti in clouds