\paperw3990 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 \b PIAZZETTA, Giovanni Battista\par
\b0 Italian painter\par
(Venice 1683 - 1754)\par
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After a period in Bologna in the workshop of
Giuseppe Maria Crespi, he was active chiefly in Venice, at the head of a very lively workshop of his own. He painted religious works, pictures with figures represented as ôgenreö motifs, and scenes with profane and Biblical themes, where the style of the
Bolognese and Neapolitan baroque was renewed through the use of a typically Venetian palette, partly based on the example set by Sebastiano Ricci. He was a significant exponent of the late-baroque decorative current, which was later to find its most poe
tic expression in the work of \b \cf4 \ATXht1263 Giambattista Tiepolo\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 .
