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1665, Mar 141747, Jul 16
an Italian late Baroque painter of the Bolognese School. His eclectic output includes religious paintings and portraits, but he is now most famous for his genre paintings. Giuseppe Crespi, together with Giambattista Pittoni, Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Canaletto and Francesco Guardi forms the traditional great Old Masters painters of that period. Crespi is best known today as one of the main proponents of baroque genre painting in Italy. Italians, until the 17th century, had paid little attention to such themes, concentrating mainly on grander images from religion, mythology, and history, as well as portraiture of the mighty. In this they differed from Northern Europeans, specifically Dutch painters, who had a strong tradition in the depiction of everyday activities.
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Canaletto
...Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Crespi and Francesco Guardi forms the ultimate group of...
Francesco Guardi
...Giovan Battista Tiepolo, Giovan Battista Piazzetta, Giuseppe Crespi and Canaletto forms the traditional great Old Masters...
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
...genre scenes. By Piazzetta's account, he studied under Giuseppe Crespi while living in Bologna in 1703–05, although...
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