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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Bacchus and Ariadne (detail) ca. 1720-30 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1720-30 oil on canvas National Museum, Warsaw |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Bacchus and Ariadne ca. 1730-32 oil on canvas Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Sacrifice of Isaac ca. 1715-20 oil on canvas Chiesa di San Francesco della Vigna, Venice |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Sacrifice of Polyxena ca. 1737 oil on canvas Alte Pinakothek, Munich |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni St Peter ca. 1740 oil on canvas private collection |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni The Annunciation 1757 oil on canvas Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Death of Lucretia before 1767 oil on canvas National Trust, Basildon Park, Berkshire |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Death of King Candaulas ca. 1720-25 oil on canvas Hermitage, Saint Petersburg |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Jupiter and Minerva as Protectors of Justice and Peace ca. 1730 oil on canvas (installed as ceiling painting) Ca' Pesaro, Venice |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Saints and Angels presenting a Worshipper to the Virgin and Child ca. 1720-30 oil on canvas Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Virgin and Child with St Anthony of Padua 1740 oil on canvas Collection of Franco Maria Ricci, Fontanellato |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni The Finding of Moses ca. 1730-40 oil on canvas Portland Art Museum, Oregon |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni Apotheosis of St Jerome with St Peter of Alcántara and an unidentified Franciscan ca. 1725 oil on canvas Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh |
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| Giovanni Battista Pittoni St Teresa of Avila supported by an Angel before 1767 oil on canvas Museo del Settecento Veneziano, Ca' Rezzonico, Venice |
"Like his illustrious younger Venetian contemporary Giambattista Tiepolo, Giovanni Battista Pittoni helped to spread the international success of the Venetian Rococo style. Most of Pittoni's religious, mythological, and historical paintings were created for German, Polish, and Russian patrons. He first trained with his uncle, Venetian painter Francesco Pittoni, then joined the guild in Venice in 1716. In the 1720s and 1730s, Pittoni's nervous brushwork produced vibrant Rococo paintings that reveal a debt to Sebastiano Ricci and Tiepolo. A sophisticated colorist, he imbued his elegant pictures with an Arcadian mood close in feeling to the French Rococo. Later, Pittoni's palette lightened and his compositions became more sedate, probably due to the prevailing trend towards Neoclassicism. Highly regarded by his contemporaries, Pittoni was a founding member of the Venetian Academy and succeeded Tiepolo as president of the institution in 1758."
– from curator's notes at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles