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The Renaissance was a golden age in the long history of Venetian painting, and the art that came from Venice during that era includes some of the most visually exciting works in the whole of western art. This attractive book - a comprehensive account of painting in Venice from Bellini to Titian to Tintoretto - is an accessible introduction to the paintings of this period.

Peter Humfrey surveys the development of a distinctly Venetian artistic tradition from the middle years of the fifteenth century to the end of the sixteenth century. He discusses the work of Paolo Veronese (Paul the Venetian), Jacopo and Giovanni Bellini, Giorgione, Titian, and Tintoretto as well as the paintings of those less well known - such as the three Vivarini, Cima, Carpaccio, Palma Vecchio, Lorenzo Lotto and Jacopo Bassano. Humfrey analyses these painters' works in terms of their pictorial style, technique, subject matter, patronage and function. He also sets the art against the background of the political, social and religious conditions of Renaissance Venice, as outlined in his Introduction. The book includes an appendix that provides brief biographies of thirty-six of the most important painters active in Renaissance Venice.

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Amazon.com Price: $35.00
Published by Yale Univ Pr
Publication date: June 1, 1995
ISBN: 0300062478
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• Top left: detail from Feast in the House of Levi by Paolo Veronese, c. 1572-3, Accademia, Venice
• Bottom of page: Charles Sindelar's portrayal of the Spirit of the Ascension Flame

             

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