Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (1696–1770) was an Italian painter and printmaker from Venice who worked in the Rococo style and was part of the 18th-century Venetian school. He was born in Venice as the youngest of six children and became a pupil of Gregorio Lazzarini in 1710. Tiepolo created his earliest known works in Venice in 1715–1716 and painted his first fresco in 1716. He worked in Italy, Germany, and Spain, and was considered an important Old Master of his period.