\paperw5190 \margr0\margl0 \plain \fs20 \f1 Italian painter.\par
After starting out in a style that was very close to that of his teacher and father Giambattista Tiepolo, he rap
idly developed a language of his own, which was distinguished by a strong undercurrent of realism. His early works, such as the \i Via Crucis\i0 in San Polo (1747-48) and the altarpiece representing \i Saint Francis of Paola Freeing a Man from Possessio
n\i0 in the church of San Francesco di Paola (1748) at Venice, show a marked interest in figure characterization. In 1750 he signed the altarpiece in the parish church of Merlengo, near Treviso, depicting\i Saint Oswald Imploring the Holy Family to Hea
l a Boy\i0 . The same year he accompanied his father to Wⁿrzburg, Germany, where he painted the panels over the doors in the Residenz. On returning to Italy in 1753, he worked on the frescoes in the presbytery and dome of the church of Santi Giovita e Fa
ustino in Brescia from 1754 to 1755, for which his father had furnished the design and sketches. In the guest-quarters of Villa Valmarana at Vicenza, where he frescoed some delightful scenes with a realistic tone in 1757, his artistic personality was rev
ealed to be completely independent of his fatherÆs. Between 1761 and 1762 he again worked alongside his father in the Villa Pisani at Stra, and afterward left with him for Madrid. He stayed in Spain until GiambattistaÆs death in 1770. On coming back to V
enice, he painted two monochrome canvases for the DogeÆs Palace in 1775, in which he took on neoclassical themes, and was appointed president of the Academy of Painting in 1780. All that remains from his visit to Genoa in 1783, when he painted a number o
f frescoes for the DogeÆs Palace which have since been lost, is a sketch of the \i Glory of Saint James\i0 (Metropolitan Museum, New York). In 1791 he resumed work on the frescoes in the family villa at Zianigo, which he had started working on in 1759 a
nd only completed, after many interruptions, in 1797 (now transferred to CaÆ Rezzonico in Venice). He died in Venice in 1804.\par
