Pittoni was born in Venice on 6 June 1687. He studied under his uncle Francesco Pittoni, a well-known but undistinguished painter of the Venetian Baroque; a Samson and Delilah at the Villa Querini in Visinale, near Pasiano di Pordenone, is signed by both painters.[3][4]: 383 The theory of Rodolfo Pallucchini [it] that Pittoni studied under Antonio Balestra is now generally discounted.[1]