Giovan Battista Langetti
Giovanni Battista Langetti (163522 October 1676), also known as Giambattista Langetti, was an Italian late-Baroque painter. He was active in his native Genoa, then Rome, and finally for the longest period in Venice.
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Giovan Battista Langetti

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- Name
- Giovan Battista Langetti
- Born
- 1635
- Birthplace
- Genoa, Republic of Genoa
- Died
- 22 October 1676
- Place of death
- Venice, Republic of Venice
- Field
- Painting
- Movement
- Baroque
- Training
- Gioacchino Assereto Pietro da Cortona
- Nationality
- Republic of Venice
- Occupation
- painter
- Fields
- portrait
- Movements
- tenebrism
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Giovanni Battista Langetti (163522 October 1676), also known as Giambattista Langetti, was an Italian late-Baroque painter. He was active in his native Genoa, then Rome, and finally for the longest period in Venice.
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Training under Pietro da Cortona and Giovanni Francesco Cassana is recorded. The recorded working language is Venetian. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are portrait. Places of work recorded in the authority are Venice. Works named in the authority record are Diogenes and Alexander. Work by Giovan Battista Langetti is recorded in the collections of Städel Museum, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Hermitage Museum, Mauritshuis and Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest.

Museo de Salamanca. Pintura de Giovanni Battista Langetti, óleo sobre San Jerónimo medita en el desierto contemplando un crucifijo.
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• Name — Giovan Battista Langetti • Born — 1635 • Birthplace — Genoa, Republic of Genoa • Died — 22 October 1676 • Place of death — Venice, Republic of Venice • Field — Painting • Movement — Baroque • Training — Gioacchino Assereto Pietro da Cortona
Biography
Biography
He first trained with Assereto, then Pietro da Cortona, but afterwards studied under Giovanni Francesco Cassana, appeared in Venice by the 1650s where he worked in a striking Caravaggesque style. He painted many historical busts for private patrons in the Venetian territory and in Lombardy. The Crucifixion with Mary Magdalene (1663–4; Venice, Santa Teresa) is Langetti's most important work. It is an impressive rendering, conveying powerful emotion, with a setting reminiscent of Anthony van Dyck. The St. Peter and St. Paul (1675; Padua, San Daniele) are distinguished by heavy monumental figures and broad brushstrokes. In addition to this small core of dated works, Langetti's fame rests on his cabinet pieces, which show violent scenes from Classical mythology and from the lives of the ancient philosophers, for example Ixion in Chains (Museo de Arte de Ponce) and the Death of Cato (Genoa, Galleria di Palazzo Rosso); or from the Bible, such as the Death of Abel (Frankfurt am Main, Städel). With his realism, his theatrical use of light derived from Neapolitan painting, and his free, painterly surfaces, stimulated by the work of Jacopo Tintoretto and Bernardo Strozzi, Langetti had an enormous success in Venice. Langetti died at Venice in 1676. A number of painters were influenced by his work, including Antonio Zanchi, Johann Carl Loth, Pietro Negri and Francesco Rosa, who have become known as tenebrists and who were prominent in the development of Venetian art in the second half of the Seicento.
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• Illustration — Diogenes, priv. col. • Illustration — Mary Magdalene at the foot of the Cross, 1663–1664, Museum of 18th-century Venice • Illustration — Samson, c. 1660, Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg • Illustration — Christ at the Column, c. 1665, Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice • Illustration — Diogenes and Alexander, c. 1650, Pinacoteca Querini Stampalia, Venice • Illustration — The Vision of Saint Jerome, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
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1625
Giovan Battista Langetti born at Genoa.
1676
Giovan Battista Langetti died at Venice.
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The authorities additionally record the headings Giovanni Battista Langetti, Giambattista Lanzetti, Giovanni Battista Langhetti, Le Langetti Peintre Genois and G.B. His recorded language was Venetian. Recorded as painter.
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