Venetian Renaissance 1400 1600 very powerful and wealthy largest fleet of ships on the sea controlled trade San Marco Byzantine style church in Europe Doge s Palace influenced by Gothic Style Middle Eastern The water conditions you to see the world in a different way Giorgione an amazing slender oeuvre of only 6 documented paintings Venetian artists are the 1st to make nature a big character or element of a The tooth of the canvas is visible in this detail Venice is one of the first regions to use canvas support for painting Giorgione Pastoral Symphony 1508 You can see the tooth of the canvas Landscape sky play a role in the mood Poesie a poetic treatment of the subject painting Oil on canvas Giorione The Tempest c 1510 Tiziano Vecellio c 1490 1576 Titian Leading painter in Venice after 1515 One of the first artists to be knighted One of the most influential painters of the western tradition Develops a new method of hand painting Titian Assumption 1516 18 Titian Pesaro Madonna 1519 26 Presenting a token of his faith Uses diagonals to get the viewer s attention Also does portraits Knighthood awarded Titian by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V Titian is one of the first artists to use the full length portrait format Titian Isabella d Este 1534 36 Collected works by famous artists Giorgione Sleeping Venus c 1505 an erotic subject vulnerable she is sleeping Titian Venus of Urbino 1538 holding flowers maids in the background implies that you are there because you re supposed to be Cassone marriage chest dog is asleep and not alarmed at the presence of a stranger some sort of relationship between a bride husband Titian develops from a crisp clear style to a loose blotchy style Painterly handling Titian is the pioneer of this idea The Venetian school of painting is the first to treat the nude female form as
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