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Baroque and Rococo
Giovanni
Battista Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta(b Venice, 13 Feb 1682; d Venice, 29 April 1754).
Painter and draughtsman, son of Giacomo Piazzetta. Most of his works are of religious subjects, yet he also painted genre scenes and occasional portraits; especially famous are his portrait heads in black-and-white chalk. His sombre art, dependent on chiaroscuro and on a limited, almost monochromatic palette, is intense in feeling and deeply realistic, in contrast to the virtuoso performances and brilliant high-keyed palette of his Venetian contemporaries.
St James Brought to Martyrdom
1722-23
Oil on canvas, 165 x 138 cm
San Stae, Venice
Idyll at the Coast
c. 1741
Oil on canvas, 197 x 146 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
