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ID: 500035595
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500035595
 
Record Type: Person
Casanova, Giovanni Battista (Italian painter, draftsman, and forger, 1728 or 1730-1795)

Note: Neoclassical artist particularly known for his drawings after the Antique. Comment on works: Landscapes

Names:
Casanova, Giovanni Battista (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
Giovanni Battista Casanova (V,display)
Casanova, Jean (U)
Casanova, J.-B. (V)
Casanova, Giovanni Alvise (U)
Casanova von Dresden (LU,V)
giovanni battista casanova (LU,U)
Casanova (LU,U)
Vandresde (LU,U)

Nationalities:
Italian (preferred)
Venetian
German

Roles:
artist (preferred)
draftsman
painter
writer
forger (criminal)

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Venice (Venezia province, Veneto, Italy) (inhabited place)
Died:  Dresden (Saxony, Germany) (inhabited place)

Events:
active:   Venice (Venezia province, Veneto, Italy) (inhabited place)
active:   Rome (Roma province, Lazio, Italy) (inhabited place)
active:   Dresden (Saxony, Germany) (inhabited place)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
sibling of ....  Casanova, Francesco Giuseppe  
..................  (Italian painter, printmaker, 1727-1803, active in Paris and Vienna) [500455301]
student of ....  Dietrich, Christian Wilhelm Ernst  in Dresden
..................  (German painter and printmaker, 1712-1774) [500009500]
student of ....  Piazzetta, Giovanni Battista  in Venice, ca. 1749-1752
..................  (Italian painter and printmaker, 1682-1754) [500003532]
student of ....  Silvestre, Louis de  
..................  (French painter, 1675-1760) [500025719]
student of ....  Silvestre, Louis de, I  in Dresden
..................  (French painter, 1669-1740) [500028503]
teacher of ....  Caffe, Daniel  
..................  (German painter and pastelist, 1756-1815) [500023059]
teacher of ....  Gránicher, Samuel  
..................  (German painter, engraver, and etcher, 1758-1813) [500084804]
teacher of ....  Hardorff, Gerdt, the elder  
..................  (German history painter and portraitist, 1769-1864) [500026913]
teacher of ....  Klass, Carl Christian  
..................  (German history painter, 1747-1793) [500118965]
teacher of ....  La Rive, Pierre Louis de  
..................  (Swiss painter and printmaker, 1753-1817) [500031968]
teacher of ....  Rehberg, Friedrich  in Dresden
..................  (German painter and engraver, 1758-1835) [500027189]
teacher of ....  Wilck, Johann Carl  
..................  (German artist, born 1772 or 1774, died 1819) [500078940]
teacher of ....  Winckelmann, Johann Joachim  Casanova supposedly taught Winckelmann how to draw in Rome, after 1755
..................  (German art historian, 1717-1768) [500021722]
worked with ....  Mengs, Anton Raphael  
....................  (German painter and critic, 1728-1779) [500009824]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Casanova, Giovanni Battista (I)

Biographies:
(Italian painter, draftsman, and forger, 1728 or 1730-1795) ..... [VP Preferred]
(Italian draughtsman 1730-1795) ..... [GRLPA]
(Italian artist, 1730-1795) ..... [PROV]
(Italian artist, 1728/1730-1795) ..... [WCP]
(Italian artist, 1728/1730-1795) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(Italian painter, 1728-1795) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Casanova ........ [PROV]
...................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Casanova, Giovanni Alvise ........ [RKD]
...................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 15713
Casanova, Giovanni Battista ........ [GRLPA Preferred, PROV Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
.......................................................  Bolaffi, Dizionario dei pittori italiani (1972-1976)
.......................................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
.......................................................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
.......................................................  Grove Dictionary of Art Online (1999-) accessed 13 Nov 2002
.......................................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
.......................................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
.......................................................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 15713
.......................................................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
.......................................................  Witt Library, Authority files
Casanova, J.-B. ........ [VP]
.................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
Casanova, Jean ........ [GRL, VP]
..............................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
..............................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
Casanova von Dresden ........ [PROV]
........................................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
........................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Giovanni Battista Casanova ........ [VP]
.....................................................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
.....................................................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
.....................................................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-)
giovanni battista casanova ........ [PROV]
..................................................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
Vandresde ........ [PROV]
.....................  Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)

Subject: ........ [Gallery Systems, GRL, GRLPA, PROV, RKD, VP, WCP, WL-Courtauld]
....................  Artists of the world, 1999-2000 (Casanova, Giovanni Battista; painter, master draughtsman; b. Nov. 11, 1730 or Nov. 2, 1728, Venice; d. Dec. 12, 1795, Dresden)
....................  Bolaffi, Dizionario dei pittori italiani (1972-1976)
....................  Casanovas, die brüder Giacomo, Francesco und Giovanni Battista, 2000.
....................  Gallery Systems (2000-) LOC ID: nr2003041275
....................  Getty Provenance Index Databases [online] (1989-)
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules
....................  Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730-1795), c2008: p. 16 (b. 4 Nov. 1730; "Die Angabe '1728' f$04ur das Geburtsjahr auf dem Grabstein ... beruht auf einer Falschinformation ...") p. 114 (footnote authenticating 1730 date: "Eintrag laut Taufregister")
....................  GRIL NACO contribution (n.d.)
....................  Grove Dictionary of Art Online (1999-) accessed 13 Nov 2002
....................  Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) LOC ID: nr2003041275
....................  Library of Congress Authorities online (2002-) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/nr2003041275
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 15713
....................  Specification des tableaux qui se trouvent dans la collection de feu Monsieur Casanova ... 1796: t.p. (directeur et professeur de l'Academie de peinture Electorale $02a Dresde) p. 4 (Jean Casanova)
....................  Thieme-Becker, Allgemeines Lexikon der Künstler (1980-1986)
....................  Wikidata online (2000-) Q655807
....................  Witt Library, Authority files
 
Note:
English .......... [PROV, VP, WL-Courtauld]
.......... Grove Dictionary of Art Online (1999-) accessed 13 Nov 2002
.......... Provenance Index Databases, Authority file (1985-)
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