Giovanni Antonio Pellegrini (1675–1741)

• Was one of the leading Venetian history painters of the early 18th century.
• His style melded the Renaissance style of Paolo Veronese with the Baroque of Pietro da Cortona and Luca Giordano.
• His father, also called Antonio, was a shoemaker from Padua.
• Pellegrini was a pupil of the Milanese painter Paolo Pagani.
• He travelled widely on commissions which brought him to England, the Southern Netherlands, the Dutch Republic, Germany, Austria and France.
• He was in Rome from 1699 to 1701.
• He married Angela Carriera, the sister of Rosalba Carriera, in c. 1704.
• Pellegrini subsequently travelled through Germany and the Netherlands, collecting Northern paintings as he went and completing works in many European cities.
• In 1713-4 he was in Düsseldorf, where he painted a series of allegorical scenes of the life of the elector, Johann Wilhelm.
• He is considered an important predecessor of Giovanni Battista Tiepolo.
• One of his pupils was Antonio Visentini.
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