![Church of San Giorgio Maggiore from Piazzetta San Marco. Gondolas parking Gondolas are hand made using 8 different types of wood (fir, oak, cherry, walnut, elm, mahogany, larch and lime) and are composed of 280 pieces.[4] The oars are made of beech wood.](http://web.archive.org./web/20120302094441/http://cdn6.wn.com/pd/49/98/70ba4e7e4f9f94c5cd24b1ca04cc_medium.jpg "Church of San Giorgio Maggiore from Piazzetta San Marco. Gondolas parking Gondolas are hand made using 8 different types of wood (fir, oak, cherry, walnut, elm, mahogany, larch and lime) and are composed of 280 pieces.[4] The oars are made of beech wood.")
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Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (also called Giambattista Piazzetta or Giambattista Valentino Piazzetta) (February 13, 1682 or 1683 – April 28, 1754) was an Italian rococo painter of religious subjects and genre scenes.
Around 1710, he returned to Venice. There he won recognition as a leading artist despite his limited output and his unassuming nature, but he ultimately was less patronized, both in Venice and especially abroad, than two other eminent stars in Venetian late-Baroque/Rococo, Ricci and Tiepolo. These two painters had a luminous palette and facile ease that allowed them to carpet meters of ceiling with frescoes, although with a superficiality and glamor that is absent from Piazzetta's darker and more intimate depictions. Nonetheless,Tiepolo, who collaborated with Piazzetta on some projects, was greatly influenced by the older artist; in turn, the luminosity and brilliance of Tiepolo's palette would influence Piazzetta in his later years.
Piazzetta created an art of warm, rich color and a mysterious poetry. He often depicted peasantry, even if often in a grand fashion. He was highly original in the intensity of color he sometimes used in his shadows, and in the otherworldly quality he gave to the light which throws part of a composition into relief. The gestures and glances of his protagonists hint at unseen dramas, as in one of his best-known paintings, ''The Soothsayer''(1740, now in Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice). He brought similar elusiveness to works of a religious nature, such as the ''Sotto in su'' ''Glory of St. Dominic'' in the Church of ''Santi Giovanni e Paolo''.
Also notable are his many carefully rendered drawings of half-length figures or groups of heads. Usually in charcoal or black chalk with white heightening on gray paper, these are filled with the same spirit that animates his paintings, and were purchased by collectors as independent works. He also produced engravings.
In 1750 Piazzetta became the first director of the newly founded Scuola di Nudo, and he devoted himself in the last few years of his life to teaching. He was elected a member of the Bolognese Accademia Clementina in 1727. Among the painters in his studio were Domenico Maggiotto, Francesco Dagiu (il Capella), John Henry Tischbien the Elder, Egidio Dall'Oglio, and Antonio Marinetti. Among younger painters who emulated his style are Giulia Lama, Federico Bencovich, and Francesco Polazzo (1683–1753). He died in Venice in 1754.
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Born into a poor family of Naples, Merola held a number of day jobs ranging from kitchen help to longshoreman at the port of Naples until one of his songs, ''Malu Figliu'', was used successfully in a ''sceneggiata'', promoting him into the limelight. Merola was at the height of his popularity in the 1970s and 1980s.
He recorded approximately 40 CDs of ''sceneggiata'' music and has extensive credits in filmed versions of this Neapolitan form, newer ones as well as "classical" works from earlier in the 20th century. He toured abroad with a Neapolitan company to bring the ''sceneggiata'' to emigrant Italian communities elsewhere.
Although better known as a singer, Merola starred in several Italian crime thrillers, usually playing a gangster. He starred as crime boss Michele Barresi in Umberto Lenzi's 1979 thriller ''From Corleone to Brooklyn''. One of Merola's most renowned movies was ''Zappatore'', where he plays a father who worked tirelessly to make his son into a lawyer, only to have his son turn his back on him.
On November 26, 2005 Mario Merola was appointed, Knight of Malta, together with Bruno Venturini and Mario Trevi.
He died aged 72 in 2006, after having been in intensive care in San Leonardo hospital in Castellammare di Stabia (Naples), with breathing difficulties.
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