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Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696–1770 · 18th century · Also known as Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was a Venetian painter, the leading European decorative painter of the 18th century. Known for luminous ceiling frescoes filled with figures in open skies, he worked in Venice and northern Italy, at Würzburg from 1750 to 1753, where he painted the staircase and Imperial Hall of the Residence, and from 1762 in Madrid for Charles III of Spain, where he died.

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo
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