Question: Giovanni Battista Tiepolo (Italian pronunciation: [dovanni battista tjpolo]; 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.Successful from the beginning of his career he has been described by Michael Levey as the greatest decorative painter of eighteenth-century Europe as well as its most able craftsman. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Artist