Pietro Longhi, original name Pietro Falca   (b. 1702, Venice—d. May 8, 1785, Venice), painter of the Rococo period known for his small scenes of Venetian social and domestic life. He was the son of a silversmith, Alessandro Falca, in whose workshop he received his first training. Later he worked under the Veronese historical painter Antonio Balestra, but his one important work of this sort, the monumental ceiling of the Fall of the Giants (completed 1734) for the Palazzo Sagredo, was an artistic and critical failure. It is likely that because of this he left Venice for ...

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