Tiepolo drew with masterly precision and brio, and his colour can be very sprightly: but one always has the feeling that he had no right to be in a church at all, except possibly to confess.
At the National Gallery we have some small examples of Tiepolo's work, which, if greatly magnified, would convey an excellent impression of his mural manner.

Tiepolo went to Spain in his old age to work for Charles III, and died there in 1770.

His widow survived him by nine years, dying in 1779.

She seems to have been a gambler, and there is a story of her staking all her losses one evening against her husband's sketches.
Losing, she staked his villa, containing many of his frescoes, and lost again.
Antonio Canal, called Canaletto, was born in Venice in 1697, the son of a scene-painter.

At first he too painted scenery, but visiting Rome he was fascinated by its architecture and made many studies of it.