Giovanni Battista Piazetta (1682-1754): St. Jerome Emiliani Active as a painter, draughtsman, printmaker and book illustrator, Giambattista Piazzetta was a pupil of Antonio Molinari. A brief stay in Bologna between 1703 and 1705 introduced him to Giuseppe Maria Crespi, whose paintings, like those of Guercino, were to have a particular influence on Piazzetta’s early work. […]