-century culture, he was the author of large numbers of paintings, drawings, etchings and above all imposing fresco decorations in churches and palaces in the Venetian region and elsewhere in Europe. Influenced in his youth by the examples of \b \cf4 \ATXht1259 Piazzetta\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 and Sebastiano Ricci, he made an increasingly thorough study of the art of \b \cf4 \ATXht1147 Veronese\b0 \cf0 \ATXht0 , drawing from it his pale and luminous tones of color and the harmonious complexity of his compositio
ns. From 1750 to 1753 he was in Wⁿrzburg working on the decoration of the Residenz for the Prince-Bishop Karl Philip von Greiffenklau and in 1762 went to the court of King Charles III in Madrid, where he decorated the Royal palace. He left behind him som
e of the highest pictorial achievements of the European rococo.