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GIOVANNI BATTISTA (tē-āpō-lō), an Italian painter, the last of the great Venetian school; born in Venice, Italy, March 5, 1692; modelled himself on Paul Veronese. His first works were in the adornment of churches and palaces in and about Venice; in 1750- 1753 he executed a great series of frescoes in the archiepiscopal palace at Würzburg, and in 1760 was engaged on the palace of Madrid. He was a most History of Religions in the University productive painter, rich in color (espeof Leyden in 1877. From its foundation cially in the easel pictures), and clear in 1867 he collaborated with Kuenen, (though incorrect) in drawing. His chief Loman, and Rauwenhoff in editing the works were the Old Testament histories well-known "Theologisch Tijdschrift," - the palace of Udine and the frescoes and he published a long series of impor- at Madrid. He died in Madrid, Spain, tant theological works. Of his writings March 27, 1769. His two sons were also there have been translated into English painters, and like their father, etchers the "Comparative History of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian Religions" (1869- 1872); "Outlines of the History of Religion to the Spread of the Universal Religions" (1876); Eng. trans. by J. E.
Carpenter, 1878). Other works discuss the Gospel of St. John (1855), the Religion of Zarathustra (1864), "Babylonialso.