Artist

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo

1696–1770 · born in Venice · died in Madrid

Giovanni Battista Tiepolo was born in Venice and became the greatest Italian painter of the 1700s. He painted huge, airy ceilings full of angels, gods and clouds in churches and palaces in Italy, Germany and Spain. His light, bright colors defined the last great age of Venetian painting. He died in Madrid in 1770.