Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini

Selfportrait, c. 1717

Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (29 April 1675 – 2 or 5 November 1741) was one of the leading Venetian history painters of the early 18th century. His style melded the Renaissance style of Paolo Veronese with the Baroque of Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano.[1] He travelled widely on commissions which brought him to England, the Southern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, Germany, Austria and France.[2] He is considered an important predecessor of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo. One of his pupils was Antonio Visentini.[3]

  1. ^ "In the Venetian paintings of Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675-1741), Giordano's flamboyant theatricality is made decorative and reduced in scale", observes E.J. Olszewski of his Continence of Scipio (Olszewski, "A Rediscovered Holy Family by Francesco Trevisani" The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1977.
  2. ^ Bernard Aikema. "Pellegrini, Giovanni Antonio." Grove Art Online. Oxford Art Online. Oxford University Press. Web. 9 Mar. 2016.
  3. ^ R. Pallucchini, La pittura veneziana del Settecento, 1960; P. Zampetti, Dal Ricci al Tiepolo, 1969; G. Knox, Antonio Pellegrini, 1675-1741 (Oxford University Press), 1995.