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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1,696) – Italian painter, was born at the Castello di SanPetro, near Venice, studied with Greg. Lazzarino, but eventually formed under the influence of Dzh.-B. Pyatstsetty and in particular through the study of works by Veronese, who then imitated in their numerous wall murals and ceiling lamps. First, before 1750, worked hard on the decoration painting churches and aristocratic palazzo in Venice and the neighboring places, and then, having been invited by Archbishop gr. Schoenborn in Wurzburg, for three years wrote a few huge fresco in the palace of the prelate ("Olympus" and "Four parts of the world", on the stairs, and "Marriage of Frederick Barbarossa in the Imperial Hall). On his return to Venice in 1755 – 1758 years. Now there was the director of Academy of Art. in 1761 went to the Spanish royal court in Madrid, and they showed their unusually prolific artistic activity, and died in 1770 in the history of painting, Tiepolo is a very important place as the last great representative of the Venetian school: the richness of his imagination, resourcefulness in composition and texture of amazing dexterity, coloring it is clear and brilliant, bold and elegant design, though not always right. The son of his time, he unwittingly paid a tribute to the then dominant style of baroque, with respect to the idea of nobility and depth of feeling he gives to his archetype, Paolo Veronese, but did not lower his luxury paint and general decorative effect. From the monumental works of the masters, over and above the aforementioned Würzburg frescoes, particularly remarkable: in the ceiling of the church degli Scalzi in Venice ("The extension of the Holy House of Loretto"), "Episodes from the history of Cleopatra and Antony, in the Palazzo Labbe, in Venice;" Scenes from the Old Testament stories, in the episcopal palace in Udine, and the frescoes at Madrid's Royal Palace ("Provinces of Spain and India). Tiepolo's paintings, painted in oils, found in almost all the major museums of Europe. In Imperial. Hermitage – two of them: "Cleopatra's Feast" and "Patron of the arts is August." Some of his paintings, as well as his fantastic compositions and artistic pranks ("Scherzi di fantasia", and "Capricci") Tiepolo beautifully engraved strong vodka. His sons, Giovanni Domenico (1726 – 1795) and Lorenzo (b. 1728), are known – the first part, as a painter, imitator of his father, mostly the same way as a skilled engraver, and the second – as an assistant under his father's work in Spain and some other places. Wed Molmenti, "Il Carpaccio ed il Tiepolo" (Turin, 1885) and Leitschuh, "Giovanni Battista Tiepolo" (Würzburg, 1896).