TIEPOLO, GIOVANNI DOMENICO

born Aug. 30, 1727, Venice died March 3, 1804, Venice also called Giandomenico Tiepolo son of the Venetian artist Giovanni Battista Tiepolo; he was a talented genre painter, especially of scenes from contemporary life and the popular theatre (as in the decorations of his villa at Zianigo, Italy, now in the Civico Museo Correr, Venice). Notable among his early works are the paintings of the Stations of the Cross for S. Polo, Venice (174749), and the chinoiserie decorations of the guest wing of the Villa Valmarana (1757) in Vicenza. He worked in Madrid from 1762 until his father died in 1770. Back in Venice, he executed several frescoes and easel paintings, especially scenes from the commedia dell'arte. He produced innumerable drawings for collectors, besides nearly 200 etchings after his own and his father's designs. His brother, Lorenzo Tiepolo (173676), seems to have specialized chiefly in genre scenes in pastel.