Giovanni Battista Piazzetta

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Happy birthday to Giovanni Battista Piazzetta, one of the most important figurative painters in eighteenth-century Venice, born on this day in 1682.

Featured Artwork of the Day: Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, 1682–1754) | Saint Christopher Carrying the Infant Christ | 1730shttp://met.org/17btTps

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Piazzetta
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian Rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.

Self portrait (1730s)

The Assumption of Mary (1735), oil on canvas. In the collection of the Louvre