What is Giambattista Pittoni?
{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2018}} {{Use British English|date=January 2015}} {{Infobox person | name = Giambattista Pittoni | image = Giambattista Pittoni, portrait by Bartolomeo Nazari.jpg | caption = Portrait of Pittoni by [[Bartolomeo Nazari]] | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date|1687|6|6|df=y }} | birth_place = [[Venice, Italy|Venice]], [[Republic of Venice]] (present-day [[Italy]]) | death_date = {{death date|1767|11|6|df=y}} | death_place = Venice | known_for = [[painting]] | style = late [[Baroque]], [[Rococo]] | notable_works = | signature = }} '''Giambattista Pittoni''' (or '''Giovanni Battista Pittoni'''; 6 June 1687 – 6 November 1767) was an [[Italy|Italian]] painter. His paintings are from the late [[Baroque]] or [[Rococo]] period.{{r|grove}} He was among the people who started the [[Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia|Academy of Fine Arts of Venice]]. Pittoni was born in [[Venice]] on 6 June 1687. He worked there for most of his life.{{r|grove}}{{r|nat|trecc}} He travelled to [[France]] in 1720. It was around this time that his style of painting changed. His style became influenced by French styles.{{r|grove}} Pittoni joined a Venetian [[guild]] of painters in 1716.{{r|zava|page=104}} He served as president of the Academy of Fine Arts of Venice from 1758 to 1760 and from 1763 to 1764.{{r|grove|viola|page2=28}} He was in high demand all across Italy during his life.{{r|grove}} == 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== [[File:Pittoni Venus and Mars.JPG|thumb|''Venu