Novelli was a pupil of Jacopo Amigoni. He enjoyed a long and successful career as a decorative painter and provided the Venetian publishing trade of many designs for book illustrations. His first recorded works are two paintings of 1759 and 1760 in Santa Fosca and a hundred designs for illustrations in the edition of Tasso's 'Gerusalemme liberata' published in Venice in 1760. In 1768 Novelli became a member of the Venetian Academy. Novelli was one of the most active partecipant in the great wave of decorative painting that swept Venice and the Veneto in the last thirty years of the Venetian republic. He worked also in Bologna, Udine, Padua. |
