Gian Maria Morlaiter, Gianmaria Morlaiter, Giammaria Morlaiter

Place: Venice

Born: 1699

Death: 1781

Biography:

Giovanni Maria Morlaiter (15 February 1699 – 22 February 1781) was an Italian sculptor of the Rococo or late-Baroque, active mainly in his native Venice. He was one of the ablest sculptors in eighteenth century Venice and the most brilliant interpreter of the rococo in Venetian sculpture, with a great dynamism and an inexhaustible felicity of invention. He was a founder member of the Accademia of arts in Venice. His son Michelangelo was a painter.