Italian painter, Venetian school (b. 1727, Venezia, d. 1804, Venezia). Italian painter and printmaker. He was apprenticed to his father, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in Venice in the early 1740s and worked with him in Madrid from 1762 until the elder's death in 1770. His most notable early works are the chinoiserie decorations of the Villa Valmarana in Vicenza (1757). Back in Venice, he executed several frescoes and paintings of scenes from the commedia dell'arte. A talented genre painter and caricaturist, he was famous for his many engravings and etchings after his own and his father's designs.   Related Paintings of TIEPOLO, Giovanni Domenico :. | The Judgment of Solomon | The Swing of Pulcinella | Aeneas Introducing Cupid Dressed as Ascanius to Dido | The Angel Succouring Hagar | The Virgin Appearing to St Philip Neri 1740 |
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