Giovanni Batista Piazetta Works Online
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Original works by Giovanni Batista Piazetta available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Art Institute of Chicago
Giovanni Batista Piazetta at the Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan
2 works online
Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge, UK
The death of Darius, 1745
J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
A Boy Holding a Pear, 1740
Kress Foundation Collection
(Look for the "Image" links for super high resolution scans)
Portrait of an Old Woman
Giovanni Batista Piazetta at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Assumption of the Virgin, 1735
Giovanni Batista Piazetta at the Louvre Museum, Paris
Head and shoulders of a youth, black chalk drawing
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Louvre Museum Graphic Art Database, Paris (in French) 
Giovanni Batista Piazetta at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
The Sacrifice of Isaac
Giovanni Batista Piazetta at the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
6 works by Giovanni Batista Piazetta
Giovanni Batista Piazetta at the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Great scans of Rijksmuseum paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
The Royal Collection, London, UK
(Zoomable - look for the magnifying glass and the text "Magnify image")
Accademia Carrara, Bergamo, Italy (in Italian)
2 paintings online
N.B. The zoom-in feature ("Esplora il dipinto") only works with Internet Explorer
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice (in Italian)
Morte di Dario
Ca' Rezzonico - Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Venice (in Italian)
Ragazzo con piffero
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK
6 works by or related to the artist
Drawings from the Biblioteca Ambrosiana, Milan
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice (mostly in Italian)
L'indovina
Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington - Provenance Research Project
Shepherd Boy with Hat and Staff, ca.1720
Le Musée Ingres, Montauban, France (in French)
Click on the artist name, then on the artwork title to view the work
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - Provenance Research Project
The Guardian Angel, ca.1717-18
Giovanni Batista Piazetta in the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Database
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra
St John the Baptist, ca.1730
National Gallery of Victoria, Australia
Diana
Pinacoteca Civica di Vicenza, Italy (in Italian)
Note that the black titles are not clickable but the dark gray titles are. Confusing.
Pinacoteca dell'Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo, Italy (in Italian)
Click the down arrow to page through the collection; G.B. Piazetta painted the 18th work
Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana
Head of A Young Boy In Profile To The Right, chalk drawing, ca.1715-18
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Strossmayer's Old Master Gallery, Croatia
St. Anthony of Padua
The Albertina Graphic Art Databank, Vienna (in German)
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
- to switch to English, scroll to the bottom of the page and click "English Version"
- images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image
Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City
Boy with a Rooster
Virtual Uffizi
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Artarchiv Sample Artist Signatures
Scroll down to signature 385
Christie's Past Sale Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive NEW!
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Giovanni Batista Piazetta in the Art Renewal Center
Saints Louis Bertrand, Vincent Ferrer, And Hyacinth, 1738
Art Renewal Center
8 paintings online
CGFA
Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Elijah Taken Up in the Chariot of Fire
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Humanities Web
Additional Image Search Tools: NEW!
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Miscellaneous Sites:
The Modernist Journals Project
(Click "Retrieve Images" to see artworks)
UK Government Art Collection
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Giovanni Batista Piazetta 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
Grove Dictionary of Art Online (excerpt)
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
Oxford Dictionary of Art (eNotes)
The Magazine Antiques
Image 4 in the slideshow is a drawing by Piazzetta
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