Giambattista Pittoni or Giovanni Battista Pittoni (1687 –1767)

• Was a Venetian painter of the late Baroque or Rococo period.
• Pittoni joined the Fraglia dei Pittori Veneziani, the Venetian guild of painters, in 1716.
• From, probably, the same year until his death he was a member of the Collegio dei Pittori, of which he became prior in 1729.
• He was elected to the Accademia Clementina of Bologna in 1727.
• In 1750 he was one of the forty-six founding members of the Veneta Pubblica Accademia di Pittura, Scultura e Architettura, which later became the Accademia di Belle Arti di Venezia.
• From 1758 to 1760 he succeeded Tiepolo as president of the academy, and was elected for a second term in 1763–64.
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