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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 37. Chapters: Francois Boucher, Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin, Jacopo Amigoni, Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Antoine Watteau, Alessandro Magnasco, Lorenzo De Caro, Gaspare Traversi, Balthasar Denner, Giuseppe Bazzani, Giovanni Battista Cipriani, Jean-Baptiste Pillement, Corrado Giaquinto, Ulrika Pasch, Antonio Bellucci, Francesco Fernandi, Antonio Balestra, Jean Francois de Troy, Domenico Corvi, Jean-Baptiste van Loo, Giovanni Domenico Ferretti, Gottlieb Welte, Carlo Carlone, Gaetano Gandolfi, Andrea Casali, Giambattista Pittoni, Louis-Michel van Loo, Pier Leone Ghezzi, Nicola Peccheneda, Charles-Amedee-Philippe van Loo, Bartolomeo Nazari, Giuseppe Nogari, Placido Costanzi, Charles Joseph Flipart, Adelaide Victoire Hall, Giuseppe Marchesi, Giuseppe Bonito, Giambettino Cignaroli, Anna Maria Hilfeling, Francesco Monti, Giampietro Zanotti, Jean-Baptiste Pater, Antonio Rossi, Francescantonio Coratoli, Lorenzo Baldissera Tiepolo, Paolo Anesi, Giorgio Anselmi, Angelica Le Gru Perotti, Pietro Capelli, Francesco Zugno, Giuseppe Dallamano, Franti ek Jakub Proky . Excerpt: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian pronunciation: ) (March 5, 1696 - March 27, 1770), also known as Gianbattista or Giambattista Tiepolo, was an Italian painter and printmaker from the Republic of Venice. He was prolific, and worked not only in Italy, but also in Germany and Spain. Born in Venice, Tiepolo was the youngest of six children born to Orsetta, Tiepolo's mother and his father, Domenico Tiepolo, a sea captain. While the Tiepolo surname belongs to a patrician family, Giambattista's father did not claim patrician status. The future artist was baptised in his parish church (San Pietro di Castello) as Giovanni Battista, in honour of his godfather, a Venetian nobleman called Giovanni Battista Doria. His father Domenico died a year after his birth, ...