What is Giovanni Casanova famous for?
1) “Giovanni Battista Casanova (1730-1795) was an Italian painter and printmaker of the Neoclassic period. He was a brother of Giacomo Casanova and Francesco Giuseppe Casanova and was born at Venice. He studied painting under Israel Silvestre and Dietrich at Dresden, and went in 1752 to Rome, where, under the tuition of Anton Raphael Mengs, 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.” Source and further information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giovanni_Battista_Casanova 2) Much more famous is certainly his brother *Giacomo* Casanova: “Giacomo Girolamo Casanova de Seingalt (April 2, 1725 – June 4, 1798) was a Venetian adventurer and author. His main book Histoire de ma vie (Story of My Life), part autobiography and part memoir, is regarded
Not much. He was a so-so painter, but not as highly regarded a painter as his younger brother Francesco. His most famous sibling however would be his older brother Giacomo, who was an adventurer of world renown. Once jailed as a magician, he escaped in a Houdini like manner. He invented the Lottery, which left him fantastically wealthy. And was he first international “spy” to ever write of it in his memoirs. Of course, he was mostly known by those memoirs, written because his retirement job of a librarian was so boring, which recount his numerous sexual encounters. This has given rise to the habit of calling any man with numerous partners a “casanova”. Gee… wonder what it would be like, to be the lesser known of three brothers. Hope this helps.
