Born in Venice on August 30, I727, Giovanni Domenico Maria Antonio Tiepolo was baptized on the tenth of September in the parish church of San Ternita (Santissima Trinita). The fifth child and eldest surviving son of Giambattista Tiepolo and his wife, Cecilia Guardi, sister of the painters Gianantonio and Francesco Guardi, Domenico was named for his maternal and paternal grandfathers, Domenico Tiepolo and Domenico Guardi. In joining his fathers business (as his younger brother Lorenzo was later to do), he followed the long-standing Venetian tradition of the familyworkshop, practiced in the fifteenth century by the Bellini, the Vivarini, and the Lombardo family of sculptors and architects, and perpetuated into the sixteenth century by Carpaccio, Tintoretto,Veronese, and Jacopo Bassano, all of whom collaborated with offspring of widely divergent abilities. Another family