Bust of a Man (Saint Matthias? ), ca. 1715?20, Oil on canvas, 17 1/2 ? 14 3/4 in. (44. 5 ? 37. 5 cm), Paintings, Giovanni Battista Piazzetta (Italian, Venice 1682?1754 Venice), This bust-length depiction of a bearded man with an axe may be identified as Matthias, the last of the apostles, chosen to take the place of Judas after his betrayal of Christ. Piazzetta, one of the defining figures of eighteenth-century Italian art, made several series of apostles, drawn and painted, to which this painting may have belonged