Giambattista Pittoni

Giambattista Pittoni (or Giovanni Battista Pittoni; 6 June 1687 - 6 November 1767) was an Italian painter. His paintings are from the late Baroque or Rococo period. He was among the people who started the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice.
Pittoni was born in Venice on 6 June 1687. He worked there for most of his life. He travelled to France in 1720. It was around this time that his style of painting changed. His style became influenced by French styles. Pittoni joined a Venetian guild of painters in 1716. He served as president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice from 1758 to 1760 and from 1763 to 1764. He was in high demand all across Italy during his life.
Loaves and fishes
The miracle of the loaves and fishes is a 1725 painting by Pittoni. It is in the collection of the National Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Australia.
The story is recorded in all four gospels. Pittoni's depiction is of the gospel of John (6:3-13): 'Jesus went into the mountains ... a great multitude followed him, He bade them sit down, took five loaves and two fishes and, giving thanks, broke them and the disciples distributed them'.
Works
Bacchus and Ariadne of the Senate (1730s), Senate of the Republic (Italy), Palazzo Madama, Sala Cavour, Rome
In the Louvre Museum, Paris:
Christ grants Keys of Paradise to St Peter
Continence of Scipio (1733-1735)
Susanna and the Elders (1723-1725)
Tombeau allegorique de l'archeveque John Tillotson (1630-1694) (1726-1727)
Bacchus and Ariadne (1720-1725)
Venus and Mars (1720-1725)
Sacrifice of Polyxena at the Tomb of Achilles
Dido founds Carthage
Holy family, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Annunciation, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice; Oil on Canvas
Hagar in Desert, Church of Frari, Venice; Oil on Canvas
Justice and Peace, Palazzo Pesaro, Venice; fresco
Nativity (1740), National Gallery, London
Susanna and the Elders (1720), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City
St Elizabeth distributing Alms (1734), Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest; Oil on canvas, 72 x 43 cm
The family (1720), Oil on canvas, 60 x 73 cm, private collection
Sacrifice of Isaac (1720), Church of San Francesco della Vigna, Venice; Oil on Canvas, 118 x 155 cm
Descent from the Cross (c. 1750), Palace of Legion of Honor, San Francisco, California
Sacrifice of Polyxena (1733-1734), Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Christ and St Peter, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
Annunciation (1758), Accademia, Venice
Death of Joseph, Berggruen Museum in Charlottenburg Palace, National Gallery (Berlin), Berlin; Oil on canvas, 97 x 79 cm
St Jerome and St Peter of Alcantara (1725), National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh; Oil on canvas, 275 x 143 cm
Penitent Magdalene (1740) Accademia, Venice, Oil on canvas, 48 x 38 cm
Sacrifice of Polyxena, Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg; Oil on canvas, 129 x 94 cm
Vision of St Anthony of Padua (1730), San Diego Museum of Art, Balboa Park, California; 35 1/2 in. x 23 1/4 in.
David and Bathsheba, 74x64 cm
Finding of Moses (c. 1730), Portland Art Museum, Oregon
Miracle of the loaves and fishes (1725), National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; oil on canvas, 120.1x178.5 cm
Martyrdom of St Thomas, Church of San Stae, Venice
Death of Sophonisba, Pushkin Museum, Moscow; oil on canvas, 165 x 214 cm
Rest on the Flight into Egypt (1725), Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid; oil on canvas, 108 x 135 cm
St Roch (1727), Szepmuveszeti Muzeum, Budapest; oil on canvas, 42 x 32 cm
Allegorical monument to the glory of Isaac Newton (c. 1727-29), Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge
Nativity, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Quimper; oil on canvas, 74 x 56 cm
Stoning of St Stephen, 2nd left picture of the Church's altar of S. Maria Diessen
Death of Agripina and Death of Seneca, Dresden Gallery
Eliezer and Rebecca (c. 1725), Musee des Beaux-arts, Bordeaux
Enthroned Madonna and Child venerated by Saints Peter and Pius V (1723-1724), Church of Santa Corona, Vicenza
Madonna with Saints, Church of San Germano dei Berici
Diane and Acteon (c. 1725), Palazzo Chiericati, Vicenza; oil on canvas, 147 x 197.5 cm
Sacrifice by Jephthah, Museo di Palazzo Reale, Genoa
Portrait of Cardinal Bartolomeo Roverella, Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo
Jupiter protect Justice, The Peace and the Science, Plafonds decoration, Ca' Pesaro, Venice
Saints presenting a devout Woman to Virgin and Child, Cleveland Museum of Art
Allegory of Painting and Sculpture, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice
Annunciation, Stadelsches Kunstinstitut
Madonna of Sorrows, Museum Gemaldegalerie (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz)
Martyrdom of St Clement: Sketch for Altar at Clemenskirche, Muenster, displayed at Uppsala Universitet Konstsamling
St Peter, Kunsthalle
Death
Pittoni died in Venice on 6 November 1767. He is buried in the church of San Giacomo dell'Orio. His reputation quickly faded after his death. Interest in him was revived in the 20th century.
Related pages
List of Italian painters
References
1687 births
1767 deaths
Italian painters
People from Venice