Painter and draughtsman, son of Giacomo Piazzetta. Most of his works are
of religious subjects, yet he also painted genre scenes and occasional
portraits; especially famous are his portrait heads in black-and-white
chalk. His sombre art, dependent on chiaroscuro and on a limited, almost
monochromatic palette, is intense in feeling and deeply realistic, in
contrast to the virtuoso performances and brilliant high-keyed palette
of his Venetian contemporaries.
St James Brought to Martyrdom
1722-23
Oil on canvas, 165 x 138 cm
San Stae, Venice
Idyll at the Coast
c. 1741
Oil on canvas, 197 x 146 cm
Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne
The Virgin Appearing to St Philip Neri
1725
Oil on canvas, 367 x 200 cm
Santa Maria della Consolazione (Fava), Venice
Three Dominican Saints
1738
Oil on canvas, 345 x 172 cm
Santa Maria dei Gesuati, Venice
The Ecstasy of St Francis
1729
Oil on canvas
Pinacoteca Civica, Vicenza
The Guardian Angel with Sts Anthony of Padua and Gaetano
Thiene
c. 1729
Oil on canvas, 250 x 112 cm
San Vitale, Venice
L'Assomption
de la Vierge
1735
Ragazzo
con piffero
Shepherd Boy
Oil on canvas
Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
Scene
pastorale
1740
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