To see him once is to see all his pictures so far as technique goes, but a complete set would form an excellent microcosm of fashionable and frivolous Venice of his day.

Hogarth, who no doubt approximates more to the Venetian style of painting than to any other, probably found that influence in the work of Sebastiano Ricci, a Venetian who taught in St.Martin's Lane.
The brave Tiepolo--Giovanni Battista or Giambattista, as the contraction has it--was born in Venice in 1696, the son of a wealthy merchant and shipowner.

In 1721 he married a sister of Guardi, settled down in a house near the bridge of S.Francesco della Vigna, and had nine children.

His chief artistic education came from the study of Titian and Paul Veronese, and he quickly became known as the most rapid and intrepid ceiling painter of the time.

He worked with tremendous spirit, as one deduces from the the examination of his many frescoes.