Bust of a Man (Saint Matthias?)
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta
ca. 1715–20
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
17 1/2 × 14 3/4 in. (44.5 × 37.5 cm)
Classification
Paintings
Department
European Paintings
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of Dianne Modestini and Eugene V. Thaw, 2016
Accession Number
2016.653
Tags
MenPortraits
About the Artist
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta · 1682–1754
Giovanni Battista Piazzetta was born in Venice in 1682 and trained first under his father, the sculptor and woodcarver Giacomo Piazzetta, before turning decisively to painting. The crucial formative experience of his career came when he traveled to Bologna to study under Giuseppe Maria Crespi, whose dramatic use of chiaroscuro — strong contrasts of light and shadow rooted in the Caravaggesque trad...