Venetian Art During the Renaissance

Its all about the color, baby!

STYLE ARTISTS and IMAGES VOCAB

STYLE

• free brushwork
  • interest in reflecting light
• use of rough weave of the canvas
• colorism, harmony of colors
• oily pigments
• complicated glazing/layering of paint
• rich modeling, shading
• EXAMPLES: Giovanni Bellini, Titian

ARTISTS and IMAGES

Giovanni Bellini Madonna and Child with Saints also know as the San Zaccaria Altarpiece San Zaccaria, Venice Oils 1505
Giovanni Bellini The Feast of the Gods oils landscape on upper left added by Titian National Gallery of Art, Washington DC 1514
Titian Sacred and Profance Love Galleria Borghese, Rome Oils 1515
Titian Madonna of the Pesaro Family Santa Maria dei Frari, Venice Oils 1519-1526
Titian Venus of Urbino Uffizi, Florence Oils 1538
Titian Christ Crowned with Thorns Alte Pinakothek, Munich Oils 1573

VOCAB

pastoral
Priapus - God of Fertility

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