Design for the Frontispiece of Studi di Pittura

Piazzetta was a gifted teacher, and Giovanni Battista Albrizzi published a drawing book that reproduced Piazzettas studies of the human body. This work is a preparatory study for the title page, though without the Latin inscription that appears in the finished work. Piazzetta's drawings for the project were executed during the last decade of his life, and the book itself was not published until 1760, six years after he had died. Here, Piazzetta's portrait is flanked by personifications of Sculpture and Painting. --Exhibition Label, from "Tiepolo, Guardi, and Their World: Eighteenth-Century Venetian Drawings"