Giambattista Pittoni?? Need some advice!

Moeller · Oct 20, 2017

MrNate said: ↑

I'll be completely honest and say prior to reading this, I had never heard of Giambattista Pittoni...With that out of the way, I offer up my humble and amateur assessment of your painting compared to other known Pittoni works:

1. The first difference that stands out to me is known works of Pittoni all seem to show a mastery of arm and body shadows. Pittoni doesn't seem to slather shadows anywhere, but rather a careful calculation to embellish bodily features and to add depth to the painting. Contrast that to your painting, and I don't see this in the same manner. Whoever did this painting shadowed out from an object. For example, looking at the sleeve, they simply extended a shadow from the edge of the sleeve. For a Pittoni artwork, I would expect to see some overlapping shadows on arms/face/etc.

2. One similarity: Pittoni's work has an effect to "draw the viewers eyes" across the painting. I found myself looking at his work and being led across the artwork in a particular pattern as a function of his staging of figures and background. Your eyes are almost forced away from the dull parts of the painting and coerced to look at the most active parts of the work. I get the same sense from your painting, that the focus of the work is to lead your eyes up into the heavens.

3. The most glaring difference as I compare anatomical capabilities is this painters hands are much more amateur compared to Pittoni's. The subjects closed right hand looks very rough compared to known Pittoni paintings. The elements of this painting look borrowed, perhaps from Annunciation 1758:

https://www.artexpertswebsite.com/pages/artists/pittoni.php

Or from the first painting on this page:

https://alchetron.com/Giambattista-Pittoni-1081549-W

Hope that helps, that's the end of my amateur assessment!
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Thanks MrNate for taking the time to evaluate the painting. At least it's not a faithful copy of an original. Maybe later i'll accept to sell it.

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