What is Giovanni Battista Tiepolo?
[[File:Giovanni Battista Tiepolo 034.jpg|thumb|Ceiling of the throne room in Madrid]] '''Giovanni Battista Tiepolo''' (March 5, 1696 – March 27, 1770) was an Italian decorative painter of the [[Baroque]]. He was born in [[Venice]] and died in [[Madrid]]. He had nine children upon his wife Maria Cecilia Guardi. Two of his three sons became his assistants; the third became a priest. He worked churches and palaces in Italy, Germany, and Spain. ==Related pages== * [[List of Italian painters]] {{DEFAULTSORT:Tiepolo}} [[Category:1696 births]] [[Category:1770 deaths]] [[Category:18th-century Italian painters]] {{bio-stub}}