Gregorio Lazzarini (1655–1730)

• Was an Italian painter of mythological, religious and historical subjects.
• Born in Venice, the son of a barber, he was the brother of the proficient painter, Elisabetta Lazzarini.
• Lazzarini is best known for having first trained Giambattista Tiepolo, who joined his workshop in 1710 at the age of fourteen.
• He trained initially with Francesco Rosa, then with Girolamo Forabosco, and lastly in the studio of Pietro della Vecchia.
• He joined the painters' guild in Venice in 1687.
• Active in Venice until at least 1715, he spent most of his life in the Venetian Republic.
• He was a prolific painter.
• Other pupils of Lazzarini included Gaspare Diziani and Bartolomeo Ignazio Capello.
• Lazzarini died on 10 November 1730 in Villabona Veronese, having moved there in September to stay with his brother, the local priest.

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