Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730 – 1795) was an Italian

Italy

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 painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic

Neoclassicism

Neoclassicism is the name given to Western movements in the decorative and visual arts, literature, theatre, music, and architecture that draw inspiration from the "classical" art and culture of Ancient Greece or Ancient Rome...

 period. He was a brother of Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Casanova

Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt was an Italian adventurer and author from the Republic of Venice. His autobiography, Histoire de ma vie , is regarded as one of the most authentic sources of the customs and norms of European social life during the 18th century...

 and Francesco Giuseppe Casanova

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova

Francesco Giuseppe Casanova was an Italian painter and a younger brother of Giacomo Casanova.Born in London, he trained in Venice under Francesco Guardi, then was a pupil of Francesco Simonini, a battle painter who took Borgognone as his model. Besides battle-pieces Casanova painted landscapes...

 and was born at Venice

Venice

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. He studied painting under Israel Silvestre

Israel Silvestre

Israel Silvestre , called the Younger to distinguish him from his father, was a prolific French draftsman, etcher and print dealer who specialized in topographical views and perspectives of famous buildings...

 and Dietrich

Christian Wilhelm Ernst Dietrich

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 at Dresden

Dresden

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, and went in 1752 to Rome, where, under the tuition of Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs

Anton Raphael Mengs was a German painter, active in Rome, Madrid and Saxony, who became one of the precursors to Neoclassical painting.- Biography :Mengs was born in 1728 at Ústí nad Labem in Bohemia...

, he became an accomplished artist in pencil and crayon. Among other works he designed the plates to Winckelmann's Monumenti antichi. He was appointed professor in the Academy at Dresden in 1764.