Giambattista or Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, Italian painter and considered the last great painter of the Baroque. He was the son of a merchant, who, upon his death, left his family in a difficult economic situation. Although he was a disciple of Gregorio Lazzarini, he owed his artistic training to the study of the works of Sebastiano Ricci, Piazzeta, and Veronese.
