Giambattista Pittoni

Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni was an Italian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the founders of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice, of which in 1758 he became the second president, succeeding Tiepolo.

Pittoni was born in Venice onJune 1687. He studied under his uncle Francesco Pittoni, a wellknown but undistinguished painter of the Venetian Baroque a Samson and Delilah at the Villa Querini in Visinale, near Pasiano di Pordenone, is signed by both painters.383 The theory of Rodolfo Pallucchini160 that Pittoni studied under Antonio Balestra is now generally discounted.

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