At last a volume that pays tribute to an artist who has been rather neglected by scholars, adding new perspectives to the complex panorama of Venetian 18th-century figure painting.
[Pittoni / The complete work] A monograph on Giambattista Pittoni (Venice 1687-1767), an artist previously documented only in fragmentary, sketchy works, adds new complexity to our overview of Venetian 18th-century figure painting. Seen in the context of the artistic culture of the time, the personality of this great master takes on a leading role in the Venetian approach to the Rococo, with an original approach in terms of taste and great stylistic refinement.
The cataloguing of the works of Pittoni, in chronological order, precisely describes the entire evolutionary process of his career.